Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shifting tides of social acceptance were charted in the 1950 edition of Manhattan's Bowery Social Register (also known as The Almanac de Skid Row), blue book of U.S. hoboes. Blue-penciled out this year by Bowery News Editor Harry Baronian: Crown Prince Bozo, for conduct unbecoming a hobo; Frisco John, for abusing people who turned him down for a handout; Buffalo John, for taking a dental bridge from the mouth of a sleeping companion. In this year: Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer...
...colleagues agreed. "A committee of women," said one, "cannot crown a book dealing with erotic subjects...
...bought the Stevens, Hilton was convinced that he also wanted the dignified old Palmer House, which was as dear to the hearts of Chicago's Gold Coast as the Plaza was to New Yorkers. To get it lock, stock and history, Hilton teamed up with Builder Henry Crown (TIME, Nov. 28) and signed the biggest check of his career-$7,500,000-as a down payment. For a total of $19,385,000 he picked up a hotel that had cost $25,800,000 to build on land worth $10,000,000. He thought that it was even...
...basic human rights which must belong to black as well as white, lest all Africa be driven in time toward a racial holocaust. He quoted Herero tribesmen who dreaded annexation by South Africa: "We shall be destroyed if we are incorporated." The natives preferred "the shadow of the British Crown" to the shades of South African apartheid. Respectfully, they begged for further U.N. hearings or a U.N. inquiry, and for the transfer of South West Africa to U.N. trusteeship...
Here is a rare and remarkable book. The reader can pick it up and read an expose of asylum condition in the London og 1699 or an account of the shooting of John Dillinger in 1934. He can find Alexander Hamilton defending the freedom of the press against the Crown in 1735 or a negro being railroaded in Alabama in 1941. He will find he newspapermen--the good ones--write stories that are as exciting and timely three hundred years after publication as they were when the ink was still...