Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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British Women's. Golfing dames and damsels of old England bowed again to the prowess of their queen, Miss Joyce Wethered. In play at Ganton, Yorkshire, Mrs. Lodge of Burhill was the last to challenge Miss Wethered for her amateur crown and was routed utterly...
Monarchists. On the arrival of a courier from Munich, capital of Bavaria, Prince Wilhelm of Hohenzollern, former Crown Prince, scurried away from Wieringen, his Dutch island home, bound for an unknown destination. Bavaria is virtually a Monarchy and Prince Rupprecht is hailed everywhere as King. The need for a real leader in Germany was said to be getting greater every day and it seems that a restoration of the Monarchy is not an impossible feat. Moreover, it appears that Great Britain and Italy would be willing to recognize a Monarchy in Germany, providing that a Hohenzollern were not chosen...
...Bond's private exhibitions of brilliantly feathered bird pictures have attracted the attention of many artists. The difficult tracts, such as the throat and crown, especially of the humming bird, were brought out in their true resplendence...
...Record. Dr. von Kahr is a Monarchist to the marrow and pins his faith on the Wittelsbach dynasty, he himself being avowedly Crown Prince Rupprecht's state agent. As Premier of Bavaria in 1921 he organized the famous Einwohnerwehr (Home Guards), which led to his resignation, because the Federal Government in Berlin professed to see in them a " grave danger to the State." He now declares that the Treaty of Versailles is dead and that the French killed it. "We have given up passive resistance, but we no longer recognize the Treaty of Versailles. The French themselves broke...
...Master. Amid scenes of great enthusiasm Crown Prince and Princess Rupprecht of Bavaria were hailed as King and Queen of Bavaria. The Prince was accompanied by Dictator von Kahr and many of the aristocracy. It was the first public appearance of the Dictator, and the occasion was a reunion and grand celebration of the veterans of the Leibregiment, the defunct Royal Bodyguard, disbanded by order of the Allies under the terms of the Versailles Peace Treaty. Twenty thousand men responded to the roll-call of the regiment. It was pointed out that if 20,000 men answered the call...