Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whizz! Whirr! With humming tires and throbbing motor there sped down a deserted road near Epernay the great Marshal Pétain-who once held Verdun against Germany's Crown Prince...
Only one scandal disturbed the Royal homecoming. Crown Princess Astrid of the Belgians, Their Majesties' Swedish daughter-in-law, was flayed last week, by a fanatically Roman Catholic news organ, Le Vingtieme Siècle. Wrote its Priest-Editor: "A recent photograph of Her Royal Highness shows her seated, with the skirt somewhat above the knees. The radiant beauty of the Princess aroused sufficient admiration in itself without the addition of such a piece of trivial daring. The example coming from the throne, or even the steps of the throne, is the most substantial bar that can be opposed...
...midst of the Irish Sea about 60,000 persons live on an island. The island is called Man, the people Manxmen, and their cats, which are without tails, Manx Cats. The history of the Isle of Man is obscure and old. At present it is a British crown dominion, and many of its inhabitants emigrate to the U. S. or elsewhere. Of these emigrés there was a gathering last week in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland Manxmen to the number of 600 attended, World Manxmen to the number of 400, and Manxmen direct from Man to the number...
...wrote the libretto. Then came the Russian revolutions. His St. Petersburg became Petrograd, Leningrad. He hustled to New York (1920). In Manhattan he founded the Master Institute of United Arts, "uniting all the arts and giving to young America the spirit of creation." He founded another institution-Corona Mundi (Crown of the World), International Art Center, to take pictures (his own mostly) "directly to the people." New U. S. friends organized for him the Roerich Museum to hold his swift paintings. That museum now has about 750 of his 3,000 works. Other productions are in the Louvre, Luxembourg, Victoria...
Much of this immensely valuable land belongs to the Crown. But it would be neither seemly nor practicable for the Crown to build its own mills, manufacture its own pulp and paper. Wisely, the Crown has leased its rich timber limits to private companies, allowing them to draw on Canada's inexhaustible resources to supply paper of all sorts to U. S. and Canadian consumers. Of these private companies, the greatest is International Paper Co., operating more than 30 pulp and paper mills, holding timber lands in fee or under Crown lease larger than the combined areas of Connecticut...