Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present generation of Cecils there are four brothers: the fourth Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President of the Privy Council in the Baldwin Cabinet; Lord William Cecil, Bishop of Exeter; Lord Hugh Cecil, noted Parliamentarian; Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of the Crown in many capacities, whose chief fame rests upon the work he has done in the cause of the League of Nations...
Arriving at the small town of Ewijksluis, the ex-Crown Prince said good-bye to the captain of gendarmes. At the frontier he said good-bye to the Burgomaster, then passed on into the Fatherland. Arriving in Hanover, the ex-Crown Prince visited Germany's famed Generalfeldmarschall, von Hindenburg. His visit lasted only half an hour, after which Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, choosing the sideways and byways in order to escape detection, sped on toward his destination, which was reputed to be his beautiful 20,000-acre estate at Oels near Breslau in Silesia, where he was eagerly awaited...
Protests to the Dutch Government about the ex-Crown Prince's return to Germany having been rebuffed, the Allies were forced outwardly to accept his return with urbane indifference. Later they found themselves in a quandary with regard to the reported activities of the ex-All-Highest. There was an electric storm in the world as telegraph and telephone lapped and gingled unending reports of what the Allies intended to do. The truth was that they themselves did not know...
...King George of Greece married Princess Elizabeth of Rumania, Feb. 27, 1921 ; Princess Helene, his sister, married Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, March 10, 1921. Princess Olga, first cousin of the King, married Prince Paul of Serbia...
...Smith who demonstrated that the crown gall, a plant disease resembling animal cancer, could be experimentally transmissted from plant to plant by cultures of a microorganism found in the gall. He is convinced that human cancers are caused by a similar infection, though no active parasite, either bacterium or protozoon, has yet been found. Many investigators of plant and animal cancer have caused cancer experimentally in varied ways-by injecting a virus from the growths, by painting rats with irritating substances, and by nematodes (microscopic worms), tape worms, other parasites. In short, Dr. Smith's theory is that...