Word: crown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morgan and let him affix her profile as Goddess of Liberty to the silver dollars issued by the U.S. Mint at Philadelphia in 1878. In 1880 a newspaper man divulged her secret and she was flooded with offers to exploit her beauty-fair complexion, blue eyes, Grecian nose and crown of soft-spun golden hair-on the stage. She refused, staying on as principal of a house-of-refuge girls' school. She later taught kindergarten philosophy at a normal school, not retiring until 1924. Not only did she take no false vanity in the accident of her unblemished features...
Some three years ago the jeweled crown of H. M. Augusta Victoria, late Kaiserin of Germany, vanished mysteriously from the Imperial palace, Unter den Linden. Since this pompous trinket of gold and jewels is valued at $875,000, many a detective has been vainly seeking it. Last week a clue was found...
...those who laughed heartily when a U. S. Lieutenant wrote you from Balboa (TIME, April 5) to complain that you had referred to a U.S. common sailor as "insignificant" in comparison with H. R. H. the Crown Prince of Sweden [TIME, Feb. 15, SWEDEN...
...splendors of Imperial Delhi eclipse those of London as the blazing Indian sun outshines the often sickly orb which rises and sets over England. At the durbars of the Viceroy attend Princes whose antiquity of lineage combined with wealth exceeds that of any other class of mortals. As the crown jewels of George V outshine those of other Occidental monarchs, so are they outshone by the trinkets of the Nizam* of Hyderabad, "the richest man on earth," a potentate privately possessed of five million acres of crown lands and tangible stores of gold and gems weighing several tons, a monarch...
...Crown of Lies. The supply of Balkan kingdom plays seems limitless, and as long as we must have them reproduced it is just as well that there are people like Pola Negri to perform. In this one she is a girl in a Manhattan theatrical boarding house who abruptly finds herself Queen of Sylvania...