Word: coronets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointment to arrange a peeress' coiffure. Special trains shuttled underground from South Kensington to Westminster Station to take dignitaries to the Abbey in time for the 8:30 closing of doors. The "Peers' Specials" were crammed with lords clutching cardboard boxes containing their robes and coronets, with pages suffering the chilly embarrassment of tights. At the Abbey entrance, a coronet fell from one peer's hand, clattering along the wet pavement until a soldier retrieved...
James's Palace in the background," Sir Hugh & Co. decided that crowns should be its theme-but "some like tiaras and some like pike puddings. We think the crown we used (a sort of Coeur de Lion coronet) is really the prettiest of them all." PICCADILLY'S "rather furtive entrance on to Bond Street" was another problem: "We wanted to draw attention to it, and we decided on flowers. But the Bond Street people felt ... we should have a royal symbol. So now we'll have trumpets." THE STRAND'S decorations are a reminder that Maypole...
Like Victoria at her first Parliament, Elizabeth II has not yet been crowned. Her crown was borne before her on a crimson cushion by the Marquess of Salisbury; a coronet of diamonds and pearls took the crown's place on her brow. A velvet robe caped with ermine hung from her shoulders, its 6-yd. train supported by two page boys. At her left walked her husband, Philip, who foreswore the traditional trappings of a Royal Duke for the dress uniform of a naval commander.* He guided Elizabeth to a spot just before her throne and stepped down...
Schneider's Silver Coronet Band, serenaded the victorious GOP throughout the evening and with Ike's victory assured, many Republicans and their dates abandoned the seats around the TV sets and danced in quiet jubilation...
Died. David Archibald Smart, 60, Omaha-born newspaper advertising salesman, who had his first publishing success as cofounder (with William Hobart Weintraub) in 1931 of a clothing-trade journal, Apparel Arts, launched Esquire in 1933, Coronet in 1936; of acute nephrosis; in Chicago...