Word: crownes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britannia between Scylla and Charybdis", one of those now in the cases, was created in 1793, when the ominous influence of the French Revolution was beginning to penetrate into England. In the engraving Pitt is steering Britannia in the snugly-built ship "Constitution," between Charybdis, the ministers of the Crown, and Scylla, a towering threatening rock capped by the colors of France. True to her attitude at that time, the fair maiden England is heedless of Charybdis, but is gazing fearfully at the rock and the sea dogs swarming around its base, representing, in ugly caricatures, the famous trio...
...second etching portrays a more personal scene in 1798. At a birthday party in honor of Fox, the Duke of Norfolk proposed such vehement toasts in favor of Parliamentary reform that he was dismissed by the Crown. This, too, Gillray has touched with insight and humor...
...York, N. Y., March 22--With only one game standing in between them and the Intercollegiate Polo crown, the Harvard polo three will meet Pennsylvania Military College, the defending champion, in the crucial game tomorrow night at the Squadron A Armory here...
...were unduly prejudiced during the campaign. I hope you say something favorable about Hoover next week. Like Paul, the Happy Warrior perhaps fought a good fight, kept his faith, but he surely finished his course. Let's hope there is laid up for him a crown of righteousness...
Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Adalbert Michael Hubert von Hohenzollern, 21-year-old grandson of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II, and second son of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, last week landed in New York. Having just received his Ph. D. from the University of Berlin, he is in the U. S. for a three-week visit to study, like any European, "conditions." Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Great Britain's impeccable Home Secretary, last week punctuated his campaign against indecency (TIME, Dec. 31), in which he has already suppressed eleven books, with a Final Appeal. Addressing a meeting of British...