Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican-Southern coalition. Then Rayburn's compromise package was introduced. Sam himself stepped out on the floor. Eloquently, somewhat defensively, he appealed for votes for his measure: "Let us not have one sector of Americans known as labor . . . believe that we would press down upon their brow a crown of thorns...
Have a Chair. The famed Hitchcock chairs, sold from door to door by Yankee peddlers more than 100 years ago, were back in production. In the rebuilt original plant at Riverton (formerly Hitchcocks-ville), Conn., enterprising Furniture Makers John Kenney and Richard Coombs were turning out rush-seated Hitchcock crown backs, turtle backs, button backs and plain slat backs, for sale throughout the U.S. The price...
Bert Haines' varsity 150-lb. crew this afternoon will be out to do the same thing Princeton did last year--capture the all-eastern 150-lb. crew crown after losing the Big Three title...
...Nations joined British Prime Minister Clement Attlee to fret over a problem that might rudely upset the Commonwealth's finely adjusted balances. The problem was posed by the fact that India, now a free dominion within the Commonwealth, had declared her intention of severing her connection with the Crown; she would become an "independent sovereign republic" next August...
...position had created powerful misgivings. From South Africa, fiery ex-Prime Minister, Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts, had warned: "Clearly India wishes to retain as an independent republic . . . some of the benefits and advantages of Commonwealth connection . . . My personal view is that there is no middle course between Crown and republic, between in & out of the Commonwealth ... If in some nebulous and muddled way you can be both in & out of it, the whole concept of Commonwealth goes and what remains is mere name without substance, the grin without the cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...