Word: augusta
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...gala night at Covent Garden, London. The King was there, so were the Queen with the old Dowager Countess of Minto, the Duke and the Duchess of Beaufort, he who was King Manuel and she who was Queen Augusta of Portugal, Prince Chichibu of Japan and a hundred other folk whom people jostle through crowds to glimpse. But it was not for the King or for the Queen that common folk had stood, many of them, some 20 hours in line, not for them especially that Covent Garden had preened itself to a pre-War splendor. It was for Nellie...
Under the heading of "Play Ball [TIME, Apr. 19, SPORT] you list the different National and American League baseball teams with their nicknames. You stated that the "Tygers" were the Detroit, American League team. The word "Tygers" should be spelled with an "i" instead of a "y." The Augusta, South Atlantic League team is known as the "Tygers," the main reason for this being in compliment to Mr. Ty Cobb of the Detroit team. Mr. Cobb got his early start in Augusta, and still maintains his residence here...
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...leather hatbox, shortly after its disappearance, by a man who claimed to represent Wilhelm of Doorn. The jeweler was instructed to contract the circumference of the crown. Dutifully he set to work. When he began it was of a size to encompass the swelling blond mane of Augusta Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. When he completed his task, it had shrunk to a nice fit for the modish head of Hermine, Princess von Reuss, present consort of Wilhelm, one-time Imperator...
...Augusta Victoria. Memories stimulated by this incident recalled that the late Kaiserin was one of the best intentioned and least fortunate of loving mothers, consorts, empresses. Her futile attempts to hold the fickle love or even the attention of Wilhelm II became a byword and a jest at court...