Word: coronets
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...white granite City & County Building. It had been abuilding for three years and now its bronze doors (world's largest) were thrown open to the public. Around its semicircular colonnade is an art museum as well as municipal offices. Designed by the Allied Architects Association, the structure suggests a coronet on the city's brow. In it are twelve kinds of marble and $5,000,000 of taxpayers' money, a far advance beyond Denver's first City Hall, a floorless log cabin on the treeless plain of 1860. Where once was heard only the coyote's howl, now stands...
...unusual a thing." Books written by Author-Publisher Lord Gorell include: Babes in the African Wood; Rosamund; Plush; Gauntlet (1931). To the Baron last week Prince George wrote a gracious acknowledgment on the stationery for which he recently designed his own monogram: an Old English G, surmounted by a coronet and surrounded by the Garter. (Same monogram on his handkerchiefs.) "Prince George is," declared a St. James's Palace spokesman recently, "the artist of the Royal Family. He plays various instruments and improvises even better than the Prince of Wales." Three, even two years ago Palace spokesmen were saying...
...Excluding royalty, there are only 20 Dukes in England. One of these goldrushed last week. Carrying a coronet under his arm as though it were a derby hat, His Grace (the Press shielded his name) entered a dealer's shop, escorted by his daughter, and plunked the thing down. The dealer wrote out a check for 15,000 paper pounds, gave it to the Duke who beamingly departed, announced that the coronet had been worn by the Duke and his ancestors at openings of Parliament for over 100 years...
...fantastic purchase price of £15,000 (52,000 gold dollars at last week's rate of exchange), the dealer accounted for by saying that "the coronet was set with valuable gems." A proper ducal coronet consists of a circlet of gold from which rise eight strawberry leaves also of gold. Peers below the rank of duke have to wear more ornate coronets. These may not be made of gold, must be made of silver gilded to look like gold. They must also be embellished with silver balls which the English call "pearls," but never with real pearls or gems...
Entered Alfonso. Nothing could have been better chosen or more tactful than the words with which he greeted his royal cousin who 14 years ago lost his coronet and all his money in a far more violent upheaval...