Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dearest bunny! And he loves me, I think." Amused, bewildered, His Majesty sent an equerry to inquire into the fractional ownership of Wilfred, whispered an additional command. Bob Timlinson, dazzled by the equerry with ten royal shillings ($2.45) transferred all equity by him possessed in Wilfred to the Crown. His Majesty, magnanimous, united Wilfred under a single ownership by presenting his imperial half to Kathleen...
...going to be one as soon as I am released, or before. A friend of mine since I have been in jail, kept me regularly supplied with your wonderful newsmagazine. After reading TIME, June 14, and seeing what you had to say concerning the reception of the Crown Prince of Sweden at Washington, D. C., I hoped .that you would say something about Louis Borno, the so-called and self-styled president of Haiti and the reception tendered him by President Coolidge.* But I have received your issue of June 21 and not a single word have I found concerning...
...afford the best, is ornamented with jewels and precious metals worthy of a U. S. millionaire's spouse. Mitre. The bonnet is a curious piece of evolution, being variously altered from a Greek female headdress to a gold plate, to a plain linen cap, to the present splendid crown. It symbolizes in the Roman Church the retention of papal temporal power. As in all the Anglican (and U. S. Episcopal) devices, it has been appropriated from Rome...
...Against the advice of his brother, the Emperor Francis Joseph, he accepted the Crown of Mexico upon promise of support from Napoleon III, which was not forthcoming. Abandoned, he made a last stand at Queretaro in the spring of 1867, but was captured, court-martialed, executed on June 19 of that year...
...ship's eager figurehead like a smile; a cloud of gulls "flickering like white flames" over brown glebe. The sea-lore is strong and spacious. Author Jesse, a grandniece of the late Lord Tennyson, has sailed many an ocean between spells of being a London literary celebrity and Crown servant...