Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Times (Independent). For 50 years Mr. Charles P. Scott, owner and editor of the Manchester Guardian, has upheld the highest and most disinterested ideals of journalism. King George has been pleased to convey officially his appreciation of this great service in a letter of thankful congratulation (1921), but the Crown has not bestowed so much as a knighthood on venerable Editor Scott...
...coup d' état by General Petala and other Fascist Army leaders to seat the abdicated Crown Prince Carol on the throne. As their Royal Majesties drove off down the Boulevard Dinicu-Golescu and proceeded by the Sosea Cotroceni to the Palais de Cotroceni the correspondents scattered through Bucharest determined to learn the real political situation...
What did Jon Bratiano do while the eyes of the world were upon Bucharest, to trumpet that he is master there and will oppose either the reinstatement of Carol as Crown Prince or the appointment of Queen Marie as one of the regents for the five-year-old heir apparent Prince Michel...
Folk whom an age of exaggeration has not robbed of their capacity to marvel at superlatives, or to criticize them, last week visited an extraordinary exhibition in a Manhattan building modestly called "Corona Mundi" (crown of the world) on Riverside Drive. It was an exhibition of skyscrapers*- models, photographs and designs -assembled by an architect whose livelihood and reputation are in the building of skyscrapers, Alfred C. Bossom. When Manhattan should have gazed its fill, the exhibition was to go on tour...
...Louis beermaker and Lillie Eberhard Anheuser Busch had been married 50 years, and they had to celebrate. First, 5,000 employes of the Anheuser-Busch breweries were given the day off, and gifts of $5,000 each went to various German-American charities. Adolphus gave his Lillie a crown of gold, studded with pearls and diamonds. William Howard Taft, then President, sent gifts. So did his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt; and the then Kaiser Wilhelm der Zweite, particular friend of the St. Louis brew master. Everyone sent gifts, $500,000 worth, flowers, $50,000 worth. Adolphus Busch could think only...