Word: crowning
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Honored. King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy and his son Crown Prince Umberto: by Pope Pius XI: with the Supreme Order of Christ, highest decoration the Pope can bestow. The order was established as a pontifical decoration by Pope John XXII in 1319. King Vittorio Emanuele and Crown Prince Umberto were the fifteenth and sixteenth recipients since Pope Pius IX revived it in 1878. Last recipient (1928) was Peru's onetime President Augusto B. Leguia whose son's name last week came in shame before the U. S. Senate...
...situation has been saved. Newfoundland will not default its obligations in January. Britain's oldest colony will not be the first to refuse payments on its debts! That is all, gentlemen." Like Sir Percy, most Englishmen still think of Newfoundland as the ''senior colony" of the Crown, though it was created a Dominion only in 1917 in recognition of Newfoundlanders' War service. Historians are not sure, but most of them think that Newfoundland was the land abounding in a multitude of fish which Seafarer John Cabot discovered in 1497 and claimed for King Henry...
...trading horses and in real estate. Last summer King Stephen III of the gypsy house of Kaslov, ruler of 10,000 scattered subjects, had to get his son Prince Willie, 17, out of a Newark, N. J. jail. Prince Willie had stolen a car and run away with a crown worth $4.500 and the tribal funds because he did not fancy the wife his father had bought for him. Last week near Los Angeles gypsy royalty made more news. Several months ago, swart Mark Adams, who has a little farm in the San Fernando Valley and rules the valley...
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for its sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. The rosary slips through fingers. Mary. Queen of Heaven, stands radiant, "clothed with the sun, the moon under her feet, on her head a crown of twelve stars." Ora pro nobis goes the cry, through centuries. Grateful millions venerate the Blessed Virgin, this year especially, for they celebrate the 1,500th anniversary of the dogmatic, final declaration, by the Church, that Mary was the veritable Mother...
Exulted red-faced, white-thatched "Jim" Reed: "Now all we need to crown this is a hanging...