Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crown Prince appeared of a sudden in the streets of Berlin. He had come from his vast estates at Oels in Silesia to attend a meeting of German agriculturists...
Along the Unter der Linden he walked. People stopped. Where had they seen that face before? Of whom did that walk remind them? Ah! yes, of course, the Crown Prince...
Said Mr. Hughes: "If you ask me what I considered to be the crown of his [Mr. Root's] endeavor, I should say it was his skill in cutting through the entanglements which stood in the way of the establishment of a permanent court of international justice. His suggestion as to the method of selecting judges made that court possible...
...outbreak of the War, which he had long before foreseen, he was appointed to command the Second Army in Lorraine and in that capacity became the "heros de Nancy". Not only that, but by his brilliant offensive against Crown Prince Rupprecht's Army (the same Prince who is now virtually King of Bavaria) he undoubtedly (in the opinion of eminent military critics) made possible the famed Marne victory. Later General de Castelnau reorganized the defense of Verdun at a time when the Germans had almost smashed it. In the space of a few days, he inspired the dispirited troops...
...death notice was to many the first intimation of his existence. Died. John W. Alden, 77, direct descendant of John and Priscilla Alden, famed Pilgrims; in Duxbury, Mass. Died. Baroness von Vetsera, 78, mother of the beautiful Countess Marie von Vetsera, who, in 1889, was found dead with Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, in his hunting lodge near Vienna; at Payerbach, near Vienna, where she lived in seclusion. Died. Edmund Plummer, 93, last of the boys who suffered under Schoolmaster Squeers, immortalized in Nicholas Nickleby; in London, on the 113th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth...