Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heroes, statesmen, scientists crowned with honors, are exalted by the lofty shafts of monuments. Even so on Cardiff Hill, at Hannibal, Mo., will be raised a shaft to crown the honors of the heroic gemini-Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn...
...Johnson?" In an editorial under this heading the New York Times tells of a debate upon this question recently held at the London School of Economics. As might be supposed, the consequences of the debate were not momentous. Johnson has not been deposed and his biographer invested with his crown and sceptre...
...children honied from school blackened and blued by the schoolmaster's rod. She had seen George V throned and Edward VII laid away. She had seen the great Victoria, Queen and Empress, go to her last rest and, 64 years earlier, had seen the girl Victoria take the crown. She had seen the entire reign of William IV. And in 1830, at the age of 5-two years after she had mastered the little hieroglyphics that are the alphabet-she remembered donning a little black and white mourning frock for George IV, may he rest in peace. Last week...
These are undoubtedly the universities which will figure most prominently in the I. C. A. A. A. A. meet. Yale, who won last year's corresponding event at the Stadium, is favored by many who believe the crown will remain in the East. The University of California delegation arrived in Philadelphia 18 strong last Tuesday to get in shape for the meet. If it wins it will have four legs on the trophy cup, tieing Cornell...
...George had succumbed to creditors and the Gambling Laws, but the Crown, onetime tavern, had turned into a thriving hotel; Belle, onetime wanton, into a good mother; Ernley, onetime lover, into a paunchy philanderer. As Daniel supported himself cleaning out the local Rector's pigsty, he felt that his past was coming back to choke him. Belle, outraged by her husband's unfaithfulness, conducted Daniel to a lodging house in Newhaven. He realized that it was anger that had made her surrender herself. She expected him, that night, to kill the last of her love for Ernley...