Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italian King and Queen are to visit the British monarchs next September. They will be accompanied by the Crown Prince of Italy...
...days 87 pfennigs would buy an Austrian crown, to-day it takes more than a mark to buy a crown. This is not so simple when it is remembered that the mark stands at roughly 80,000 to the dollar and the crown at about 70,000. Accordingly it takes only $12.72 to become a millionaire in German marks and $14.12 in Austrian crowns. (Figures according to the current rate of exchange...
...Crown Prince of Germany, often alluded to as "Little Willie," celebrated his forty-first birthday on the Isle of Wieringen (off the coast of North Holland) by giving the inhabitants signed photographs, souvenirs, sketches drawn by himself...
Hungary is reported to be on the brink of a revolution. The principal reason given is that there is a widespread distrust of the present Government. The rapidly falling crown has also a good deal to do with the discontent...
...reason for the great attachment of the peasants to the Habsburg family is not sentimental but religious. In 1001 Pope Silvester II gave King Stephen I a crown (which is still used) in recognition of his invaluable work in constructing Hungary, cementing the Magyar nationality and firmly establishing the Hungarian Church-Roman Catholic. The Habsburgs, having worn the Holy Crown, are the only family that are eligible to ascend the throne-so think the peasants. The attachment of the peasants is not to a royal family but to the Crown, which means everything to them...