Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days of the Spanish conquistadors. Stumbling along the shaft, Van Steck came upon 45 additional bars, refused to share them with his partners, hurried to the settlement to file a claim, leaving native pack drivers on guard. The 80 bars, each stamped with the seal of the Spanish royal crown, are valued at $1,120,000. Dazzled by so much wealth, Hill intrigued with the native drivers, fired at Van Steck as he returned from the settlement, missed, fled into the mountains...
Steelman Myron Taylor was again at the Grand Hotel de l'Europe. So were Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden, Actor Sacha Guitry. the Bishop of Winchester, Tenor Richard Tauber. rich Mrs. Harry Guggenheim of New York. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was expected back again. In the swank Cafe Bazar and Count Alfred Salm's tearoom across the way, chatter about the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's impending arrival all but submerged the news that King Carol of Rumania, King Leopold III of Belgium, Prince Umberto of Italy, the young Franklin Roosevelts were coming...
...Mightily displeased would Scots have been if Queen Elizabeth had worn the State Crown, the lower part of which she had on week before at the Buckingham Palace Court, for Scotland has its own Crown jewels safely tucked away in Edinburgh Castle...
...England were "the policeman, cart-horses and Simpson's beef-steak." * The worst example of English bad taste she found in her hotel lavatory, where the toilet-paper was stamped with an advertisement showing "a lovely little child's face." Peering through heavy bars at the British crown in the Tower of London, she wished that she could be in the crown's place looking out at the acquisitive expression on the faces of the onlookers...
...Their Majesties, the Garter King of Arms next day performed his usual functions in Buckingham Palace at the third and last Court of the present London season. For the first time at one of these Courts, bonny and buxom Queen Elizabeth wore the lower part of her new State Crown placed on her head at the Coronation (TIME, May 24). This blazed with the 106-carat Kohinoor diamond once in the State Crown of Queen Mary who, not present at last week's Court, recently appeared wearing a mortarboard when she graciously laid at Oxford the cornerstone...