Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passings Show of 1924" has nothing out of the ordinary to present. There are the usual sumptuous sets such as the Beaded Bag, King Arthur's Round Table, the Crown Finale, and the Porcelain Groups. There are the inevitable vaudeville acts of Jack Rose, and also Lulu McConnell, There is singing by Ruth Gillette and LeRoy Duffield, in which the latter is forced to take his voice cruelly beyond its range. There is dancing by almost everybody, but more particularly by the diminutive Harrington sisters, the Trado twins (male), the Lockfords (m. and f.), Bessie Hay, and Eleanor Willems. Miss...
...probability the University and Yale teams will meet again in the Intercollegiate Tournament which will be held in New York early in April. The University fencers, whose defeat on Saturday was the only one this season, are expected to make a strong bid for the intercollegiate crown. The Crimson team has won the championship for the last two years...
...object of the visit, which is of great importance, is undoubtedly to rally a large section of the Boer population to a closer loyalty to the Crown and to kill the republican spirit voiced during the past election campaign (TIME, June 16) by Premier Hertzog and his followers. There is a good chance, however, that a term of office has already made the Premier recant, for it was he who re-issued the invitation to the Prince which General Smuts made some years...
...trembled on that night. After the first act, they trembled no longer; for the Inglesi made her appear 20 times before the curtain, clapping her long, and even cheering her in their funny, diffident way. Later that evening, the famed Patti told her: "You have won by merit the crown that I have laid aside...
...Ryan, famed California player. What was their chagrin when Miss Ryan defaulted in the second round! Nice buzzed. It was another trick of long-legged Lenglen, said loungers. She had used unworthy pressure to have Miss Ryan withdraw so that she, Lenglen, might go undefeated, remain a legend. To crown the mess, they, disgusted, boycotted the tourney...