Word: kent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unworn Crown. Pious Jugoslavs, shivering bareheaded in the chilling rain, prayed aloud in unison as the stately Orthodox service began in Belgrade Cathedral, pack-jammed with royalty, statesmen and the corps diplomatique. Weeping beside the Duke of Kent was Princess Marina. Her brother-in-law Prince Paul, Jugoslavia's pallid, scholarly Chief Regent, barely controlled his grief. On a high platform upon a great throne chair sat 11 year-old King Peter II, big-eyed, erect and at times somewhat puzzled. Below him lay his murdered father King Alexander I in a simple oak coffin...
Transradio Press Service. If UP's Karl Bickel or AP's Kent Cooper should walk into the Transradio office in Manhattan, he could plant himself in the news editor's chair, roll up his sleeves and run the show with practically no coaching. With its news editors, rewrite men and teletype operators, the place looks, sounds, smells and works like a wire service office in any U. S. city. But there is an invisible difference: The teletyped news reports flash cross-country not into newspaper offices but into 50 broadcasting stations...
...Gardiner, John, Groton, Gardiner, Me., Mower B-32. Kennedy, Joseph, Jr., Choate, Bronxville, N. Y., Stonghton 20. Ludden, Mouree, West High, Madison, Wisc., Thayer 10. Nesmith, John, St. Paul's Cambridge, Wiggle, G*22. Oakes, Arthur, Oak Park H. S., Oak Park, III., Thayer 14. Stickney, Albert, Jr., Kent, New York City, Weld 3. Sullivan, Robert, Boston Latin, Boston, Matthews...
...foregone conclusion, as soon as the engagement of Prince George to handsome Princess Marina of Greece was announced, that he would follow his older brothers, York and Gloucester, into the Peerage. The great question was what title would be given him. Two famed royal dukedoms were vacant-Edinburgh and Kent. Last week by letters patent George V ordered that his youngest son be proclaimed Duke of Kent forthwith. Kent, whence come the hops to make British beer bitter, was a Kingdom long before William the Conqueror. There have been Earls of Kent since the 11th Century, but there have been...
Prince Paul, his 41-year-old cousin whose wife is the sister of the Duke of Kent's Princess Marina...