Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yarborough, Baron Worsley (owner of many a Rembrandt and Reynolds); James Edward Hubert Gascoyne Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (conscientious high churchman). The King-Emperor George V. resumed a gracious custom inaugurated by his graceless predecessor George III. The custom consists in granting to some faithful servant of the Crown a life lease on White Lodge, the royal estate at Richmond Park. The faithful and sometimes quixotic public servant rewarded was Viscount Lee of Fareham, who had given his own estate, Chequers, to be used as a summer residence for British premiers...
...Tokyo, Prince Regent Hirohito, who has ruled in his father's stead since 1921, presided over the chrysanthemum fete with his wife, the Crown Princess Nagako. He and his three brothers are strapping sportsmen, know not infirmities...
Married. Leopold of Saxe-Co-burp und Gotha and of Flanders, Crown Prince of the Belgians, Duke of Brabant; to Astrid of Ponte Corvo, daughter of Prince Carl of Sweden, niece of the kings of Norway, Sweden and Denmark; in Stockholm (TIME, Nov. 15) and Brussels...
...University cross-country team, with an unbroken list of triumphs for the season, will face the entrants of 20 other colleges today in an attempt to annex the intercollegiate crown. Running on the Van Courtlandt Park course in New York City at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon, Captain E. C. Haggerty '27 and his six leading harriers will form part of a field of 146 runners...
...twelfth last year, is conceded an excellent chance to repeat its 1925 triumph. Penn State and Harvard, however, have well-balanced teams that should make the six-mile race a struggle all the way. Yale pins its hopes on Captain Macaulay Smith, a brilliant runner who captured the individual crown...