Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Benito Mussolini, whose diplomatic tenacity consolidated by Treaty from the Yugo-Slavs what the sword and pen of the swashbuckling poet had made the great national ambitioin of the Italians, went the Order of the Annunziata, the highest honor that can be given by the Italian Crown. There are only seven in the order; the recipient is entitled to sit in the Royal presence and to .call the Sovereign "Cousin...
...beautiful a thing is judgment for gray hairs and for elders to know counsel! How beautiful is the wisdom of old men, and thought and counsel to men that are in honour! Much experience is the crown of old men; and their glorying is the fear of the Lord...
Herr Gustav Rösiche, President of the National Agrarian League and a leading reactionary member of the Reichstag, went on a visit to the ex-Crown Prince at Oels. He was to have delivered a report on German agrarian sentiment to His (ex) Royal Highness, but he was rendered unconscious by an apoplectic stroke from which he died...
...process of evolution the hermit Japanese of the early cartographer became the "inscrutable Jap." of modern fiction. And lest the tradition of his baffling incomprehensibility be momentarily forgotten there arrives the news that Crown Prince Hirohito has be-stowed the high noble and hereditary title of count upon one Hasakura, dead these past three hundred years. By one command of the mighty Regent the mouldering ambassador" and his entombed descendants rise from their plebeian ashes to trail the clouds of their new nobility. The only parallel in the Western World is the tri-centennial crowning of Bacon with the laurels...
Coincident with the opening of the Sargent exhibition in Manhattan, his mural in the Boston Public Library, entitled The Synagogue, was found to be splashed with ink. The painting, representing a woman on the steps of a ruined temple, her crown falling from her head, and clutching in her arms the tablets of Moses and a broken scepter, has been the subject of violent controversy between the civil authorities and prominent Jews who regard it as an insult to their faith. The identity of the ink-thrower is as yet unrevealed, but His aim was not equal to his ardor...