Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louis IX, King of France, Saint Louis, who bought the crown of thorns, parts of the true cross, the holy lance; Louis, who built Sainte Chapelle; Louis, who fasted, loved sermons, heard two masses each day (dressing at midnight for matins) ; Louis, who surrounded himself with chanting priests on horseback when he traveled; Louis, who brought beggars into the back door of his palace; Louis, the ideal king of the late middle ages?his "name-day" was last week fervently sentimentally celebrated by all blind people of France. They of the Quinze Vingts, world's first refuge for the blind...
King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto embarked on the royal yacht Savoia. Members of the Italian Parliament boarded the Citte de Trieste. Both ships steamed out in the Tyrrhenian as dark settled down. They steamed ahead laying a course between Sardinia and Corsica, their lights glittered on the water, but on all the wide expanse of sea no other lights were visible. Yet ships, big and little, airplanes and dirigibles were speeding through the darkness about them. A week's sham battle at sea was in progress. The "Red" fleet based on Sardinia was to try to capture...
...buffet luncheon which followed, the Crown Prince, an earnest Christian, was seen everywhere chatting with delegates...
...political ascendency. He went to speak for the farmers of the West who believed their troubles were caused by a shortage of currency. He went to the Convention demanding the free and unlimited coinage of silver, crying: "You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall !not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold...
Emperor Yoshihito was much touched at the superfluity of illumination that the Temple had sent him. He smiled and sent half of them to the Japanese Pragger Wagger (Crown Prince) who, in his garden at Tokyo, liberated them. The Prince, being but recently married, found enough light in the eyes of his Princess Firefly...