Word: crown
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...Britain, the duties of the Attorney General's office are not unlike those of the corresponding office in the U. S. The Attorney General represents the Crown (meaning Government, in its widest sense) in all legal questions, advises the government departments when called upon. In addition, he has wide control in matters relating to criminal prosecutions...
...messenger who brings a parcel for his bride, the extremities to which he is forced to evade the fearsome Cambodians, may be imagined. To round out the plot there is a French widow with a prodigious family of daughters and a treasure chest for the Crown Prince of Siam. Numerous officers and the Crown Prince himself take care of the daughters, and the Regent looks out for the treasure chest and incidentally, the window...
...music, for the Regent through his many troubles possesses the gift of song, is pleasant. Some of the hits are distinctly good, -- particularly the Crown Prince's philosophical "A Pretty Girl", --and most, are well sung. The tunes carry you back to the man who used to sing "Where the River Shannon Flows" as he beat rugs in the back yard. They are pretty and melodious, but while not holding them to be directly the cause of the War, it is no libel to say that one has only to hear them to understand the why of jazz...
Camillo Castiglioni, "Austrian Stinnes," went bankrupt. A few years ago he was a comparatively poor man, but through the depreciation of the crown he amassed a fortune reckoned in tens of millions of dollars...
...Emperor trembled; the Regent trembled; the Empress trembled; the Crown Princess trembled; the Court trembled; the Cabinet trembled; the Diet trembled; the Japanese trembled; the Europeans trembled; the very buildings trembled; even the trees trembled ; the sea trembled; boats trembled; docks trembled - Mother Earth was angry, shook Tokyo in "one of the most severe earthquakes since the disaster of September last year." One house collapsed...