Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story tells of a lovely lady at a great ball in Budapest. For two years she has loved a youth, feared to go to him because of the watch of her veteran and nagging husband. The great Crown diamond is lost-a Buddah's eye with a history. Finding it behind a hanging, she catches fire from its influence. She tells her lover she will run away. In the crisis, he falters. Disillusioned, she gives up the diamond and goes back to her husband...
...given up the life of a sailor to write poetry. He goes without meals to carry out his ambition. Another, unwilling to let his wife go hungry, works by the hour in a shirt-waist factory, reserving enough hours to finish his plays. Success may crown their efforts...
Although questions of important policy are involved (such as playing into the hands of the Irish Republicans by admitting that the Crown is no link between the Dominions, or permitting the Free State to appeal to the League over the Boundary Commission's de- cision, which is expected to be un-satisfactory), the real issue is, so far as it Concerns directly the League, Is Britain one nation or seven...
...seven nations, it would appear that the Free State acted within its rights. But the question is far, far deeper. The Commonwealth is bound together by a common bond represented by the Crown. Dominion Status within the Commonwealth does not legally empower any member to undertake any action which shall or may in any way undermine government by King, Legislature and Executive.*** The mere registration of the treaty seems in no way to invalidate this con- ception of government, but it implies the right of the Free State, if the Boundary Commission fails to settle the Boundary Question between Northern...
...never gotten credit for it, who have been champions and are forgotten. Will one of these sidling, loquacious ones ever be a huge brown Argentine with a mane like a privet hedge? Luis Angel Firpo, will he ever tell unbelievers how he was "cheated" out of the boxing crown of South America? Last week, he lost that crown. One Quintin Romero, Chilean, has long thumped his tom-tom, shouted that he would have Luis' blood. The South American Boxing Commission heeded his beatings, his shoutings. Holding that the Wild Bull of the Pampas had not answered within a reasonable...