Word: coronet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...teatime in Buckingham Palace last week Princess Margaret Rose, 8, was invited in to have a buttered scone with her father, mother and Queen Mother Mary. Proudly she strutted up and down, swinging a cane, wearing her new coronet...
...Coronet, the flashy little magazine launched last fall by the publishers of Esquire, put its flashy little radio promotion program on a national hookup out of Manhattan for the first time last week. Critic-Composer Deems Taylor and a band supplied most of the entertainment. While the idea was, where possible, to dramatize Coronet's, contents, the show's material was not restricted to this specification. Said NBC's publicity department: "Deems Taylor is the absolute dictator. . . . He balks at nothing. ... He and his musicians and radio actors have interpreted . . . the photograph of a bowl of goldfish...
...dancing bananas marked Dictator Taylor's presentation last week. But there were "re-enactments" of Coronet articles on: the disappearance of the moon, in which a male quartet sang a moon-song medley with grunts substituted for the word moon; how to avoid suicide, in which simulated voices of persons about to kill themselves were broadcasted. Tonic effects included a symphony drowned out by coughers and miscued clappers; an outdoor opera eclipsed by bullfrog croakings, yowls of cats, dogs...
Because the Princess Royal, Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, was tripped up by her 10-foot train at the age of 14 and her coronet fell off at the door of Westminster Abbey in 1911, it was announced last week that Princess Elizabeth, 10-year-old heir to the Throne, will profit by this lesson of experience. Her Royal Highness will be supplied with a very short train not apt to trip her, a very light coronet not apt to slide off in any case, equipped with a strong elastic band...
Tired, but cheered by more than a dozen encores during the evening, Miss Henie was radiant as she joined her father and mother. She shook the flowered coronet from her golden hair, looking every bit as attractive as she does in her new film...