Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...largest hat ever made was a special order from a Ringling Brothers Giant, who weighed 480 pounds and took an 8⅞. There is not much variation in straw hat styles, straws of the present (delayed) season tending toward a narrowed brim and a slightly bell-shaped crown...
...diamond thieves, one of them a woman, and the kidnaped manager of the Crown Diamond mines, get thirsty in an oxcart. Suspense, provided by the problem of how Gilbert is to get both diamonds and woman, gathers smoothly and almost originally, until the star embraces Mary Nolan in the mine office and Ernest Torrence is led off to jail. Best shot: Torrence lulling the suspicions of the mine employes when a steam-alarm goes off as he is robbing the safe...
Even the Arabs, who in Palestine out-number Jews by seven to one, were content last week to let Jews worship in peace. And to crown their worship came the formal dedication of a gift to Palestine from U. S. Jewish Philanthropist Nathan Straus...
Engaged. Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, 21, second son of the onetime German Crown Prince; to Lili Damita of Hollywood, French cinemactress. Stopping in Los Angeles, last week. Prince Louis said he liked the town, might stay, might work, might get naturalized...
...reason the Hotel Sacher has never made any money, though it is always full, is that Frau Sacher kept house frankly for aristocrats. The Sacher is the only restaurant in Vienna where the double-headed eagle hangs on the dining room walls and the imperial crown is on the porcelain. Loyal Frau Anna often allowed princes and archdukes to stay at Sacher's rent free. No rooms were ever available at Sacher's for tourists whom Frau Anna did not consider sufficiently haut...