Word: crown
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...Story. The George was King George III. The Crown was Queen Anne's Crown. They faced each other across the only street of Bullockdean in Sussex-the one a dilapidated pub for sharkies and such, the other a tavern frequented by the county quality...
...Shearer, whose wife, sharp of nose and tongue, came from Péche à Agneau in the island of Sark, ran the George. Daniel, his son, was the friend of Ernley Munk, the heir to the Crown...
When Belle Shackford, the lovely, tawdry, easy daughter of a failing tenant farmer, became engaged to Daniel after Ernley had thrown her over, she was only following precedent. People who were not good enough for the Crown went to the George. But, one day, just as she was about to sit down to victuals in the George, she swooned; and when her swain brought her to with a nip of the house's brandy, she told him that she was going to bear Ernley's child...
James Montgomery Beck, 63, officer of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of the Crown (Belgium), corresponding Member of La Societe de Gens de Lettres, resigned from the post of Solicitor General? of the U. S. which he had held since July 1, 1921. Previous to that he had been head of Beck, Crawford & Harris, Manhattan law firm. Before that he had been 14 years a member of Shearman & Sterling, one of the most powerful law firms in the history of Manhattan. Previously he had been Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. (1900-03) and a District...
George Downing, fell into the hands of the Crown. In 1732, George II offered No. 10 to Sir Robert Walpole, usually regarded as the first modern Prime Minister.* Sir Robert accepted the offer of the Premiership in perpetuity and took up his residence there in 1735, seven years before he resigned and became the Earl of Orford...