Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William S. Vare, Republican boss of Philadelphia, wants to crown his career by taking his seat in the U. S. Senate...
...first time Her Majesty presided as Chairwoman of the Crown Council, despite the presence of Edward of Wales, who had been expected to sit as Chairman. Business before the Council consisted in routine exercise of the authority vested in the Crown. However, since the Council does not possess the King's power of creating peers, the usual...
Revealed last week by L'Illustration, famed Parisian review, was a hitherto suppressed and most significant fact: on New Year's Day, 1915, His Royal & Imperial Highness, Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany and of Prussia, sent a German captain and buglers, bearing a flag of truce, across "no man's land" to the headquarters of French General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail...
...Wilhelm. Crown Prince...
...given notice that presently his services would no longer be required. He bowed as unctuously as if he were once again seating the Crown Prince of Siam at the dinner table, and said he was sorry...