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...Crown-with its 309 carat diamond, one of the "Stars of Africa"; its ruby big as a hen's egg from the Crown of Edward the Black Prince: the Stuart Sapphire from the Crown of Charles II: the pearl eardrops of Queen Elizabeth: the sapphire Edward the Confessor wore in his Coronation Ring. Great officials of the Kingdom were in utmost consternation when they noticed belatedly that The Crown's topping of a Maltese cross set with a square sapphire, eight medium-sized diamonds and 192 smaller diamonds had fallen off during the procession and disappeared...
Dolores and Pedro laugh at locksmiths to such purpose that when he goes off to the wars again she is no longer heaven's bride except in name. Her confessor, the dreaded Fray Sebastian, discovers her state, and his holy wrath is fanned by unholy jealousy. He dedicates his life to bringing these two paramours to a dreadful death. To anxious readers it may look for a time as if he would be successful, but Author Clayton steps in manfully in time's nick, turns tables right & left, ends his romantic melodrama with a thumping Hollywooden finale...
Before adopting the career of mass confessor, Taylor was a proficient organist. He was guest organist at the St. Louis Fair of 1904. An automobile accident that crushed his hands in 32 places took him from the manual...
Primary among the Freshman acquaintances to be made today is that of the adviser who is ostensibly to serve as a guide and father confessor for his charge throughout the difficult first year. The advisor was placed in the Freshman limelight in an effort to aid the new comer to Harvard through the most troubles stage of his college career. Halcyon as the first hopes were for the success of the advisory system when it was first tried, recent years have proven that something is indeed lacking in this scheme of helping the bewildered. The adviser has not been...
...bewildering succession of Saxon Aelfreds and Aelfrics and Aedmonds, had been reduced to a sorry state by the Danish invasion. A Danish king had ruled it for years, and when the Saxon line regained the throne, Danish influence and Danish families still dictated to the country. Edward, called the Confessor, was a good man and later a canonized Saint, but a Danish earl and his sons dominated the king and wracked the land with their ambitions enterprises. The succession was obscured. There was Harold, who finally obtained it; there was Edward the Aetheling ("the exile") who prudently remained...