Word: crownes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passionate address of Duce to the Senate, last week, was almost solely designed to vanquish this fear. Cried he, at the apogee of his oration: "Six years of loyalty and devotion to the King and Crown by all men of the Fascist Party and the recent dedication by the King himself at Bologna of a votive lamp in memory of those Blackshirts who fell in the creation and defense of the Fascist regime, make it unnecessary to give further demonstration that the rights of the Crown will not be endangered or touched by the special prerogatives given to the Grand...
...Majesty strode to the Throne. His train stretched behind him, his crown flashed. Then he turned and faced his Ministers and the Lords of his Realm. The Commons were summoned and appeared. All was in readiness for the King to open Parliament with his Speech from the Throne...
There was no Coronation in Japan last week. There could be none. There is no Crown...
Coupled on ahead of even the Tenno's private car was that which bore the Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess, a divine, holy and potent relic comparable to a Crown. In one legendary instance the Mirror was nefariously buried and concealed; but the Sun Goddess at once caused it to project upwards from the ground a radiance so transcendant that impious beholders were blinded and driven mad. Since then prudent Japanese have taken no liberties with the Divine Mirror, originally inherited by the first Tenno Jimmu from his great-great-grandmother, Sun Goddess Omaterosu O-Mikami, who established...
Many magnificent and historic individual gems still survive. Black, Starr & Frost has an emerald presumably from the Russian Crown collection. Tiffany recently acquired a ruby considered the finest it ever owned. Last week, Queen Mary of England attended the opening of Parliament wearing the Cullinan diamond, largest in the world, estimated to be worth...