Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already diamond-bespangled toilet. She may have reflected that the Koh-i-nor weighs only 106 1/16 carats. She perhaps yearned secretly for the 516 ½ carat fragment of the 3025 ¾ carats (before cutting) Cullinan Diamond, the chief diadem of the British Crown. Or conceivably Her Majesty remembered that a common "engagement size" diamond (roughly 3/16 inches in diameter) weighs approximately ½ carat. The Queen-Empress, no diamond glutton, donned and adjusted inconspicuously...
...court, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Both grew quipful last week when the Committee considered an appeal by the Canadian Ministry of Finance against a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada respecting one Cecil Smith, confessed bootlegger. Succinctly put, the question at issue was: "Ought the Crown to reap taxes from incomes known to be drawn from illegal sources, or is the $90,000 annual income of Cecil Smith nontaxable because he is a bootlegger...
...once more in the tenth. The referee, seeing that Garcia was al ready rising on one knee to go in search of further injury, stopped the bout. Lightweight. When Benjamin Leonard, nonpareil of lightweights, retired from the ring at the top of his hour, the successor to his crown proved ultimately to be Rocky Kansas, of Buffalo. This Kansas, whose real name was left behind in some alley of his white boyhood, is a scarred workman, 35 years old, who has devoted approximately two-thirds of his life to the trade of fistic war. He is not beau tiful...
...13th. Other blase watchers recalled that last year at Montclair Lamprecht defeated Jack Westland of Washington University 9-7 by means of three consecutive 34's. That same hot day saw another title retained at Merion. Edward G. Chandler of the University of California captured the intercollegiate tennis crown for the second consecutive year by defeating Cranston Holman of Leland Stanford University...
...famed Quaker Oats Company of Chicago does not confine its knowledge of psychology to America. Realizing that worshiping Japanese ape their divinely-descended royalty, sagacious salesmen foisted puffed-wheat upon the slant-eyed public by a gift to the Crown Prince of an elaborately engraved box just the size of a carton containing three dozen packages of cereal. Exploiting Reputation. Last week a group of Manhattan bankers and labor leaders furbished up a new sort of bait to attract the $6,000,000,000 to $7,000,000,000 which U. S. labor accumulates each year. These men gained control...