Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competition on the cinders. The results should provide some basis on which to forecast the outcome of the Intercollegiates next month The I. C. 4A. meet, the culmination of the eastern track season, is scheduled for May 25 and 26, in the Harvard Stadium. Stanford captured the western track crown again this year, and is once more expected to be the strongest I. C. 4A competitor...
...visit as the house guest of U. S. Minister to the Netherlands Richard Montgomery Tobin. Presently Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands bade Sir Austen to come and take dinner at the unpretentious, neatly painted mansion which serves as Her Majesty's palace. Placid Dutch courtiers admitted that Crown Princess Juliana, 19, is beginning to ponder whether she should take as a useful consort one of the British King-Emperor's younger sons: Prince Henry, 28, or Prince George...
...Peacock Throne of Persia was once a swashbuckling bandit, Reza Khan. Today he is the Shahinshah, Reza Shah Pahlevi: "The King of Kings, Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Persia." He indulges in such luxuries as to allow to his 10-year-old son the Valiahd (Crown Prince) a civil list (allowance) of $2,000,000. But withal Shah Reza has not grown efféte or enervated. The old eagerness for battle kindled in his veins, last week, when news came that rebellious tribesmen were stirring in Luristan and had assassinated the Shah's Minister of Public Works, the Emir...
...Frederick III in Vienna Cathedral, ordered a year ago by the Germanic Museum, is now completed and will soon be shipped. This is one of the richest and most decorative pieces of flamboyant Gothic sculpture of the second half of the fifteenth century. The Emperor, in gorgeous vestment, with crown, imperial orb and sceptre, is standing under a vaulted canopy the front of which contains a relief of St. Christopher with the Christ child. Around the Emperor are grouped the emblems of his sovereignty and coats of arms of the Empire, the Hapsburg dynasty. Upper and Nether-Austria, Styria...
Most inappropriately, the Most Catholic Crown Prince found in Jerusalem a gathering of potent Protestants. Lecturing and speechifying to one another, they constituted the International Missionary Council (see RELIGION...