Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year. For, the past she says, "I've had my share of thanks." And they have been plentiful. Though she was not decorated by the Russians when she gave a festival in Moscow in 1931, she has the Legion of Honor from France and Belgium's Order of the Crown and Order of Leopold. She was also made an honorary citizen of Frankfurt in times when that distinction was more highly regarded than at present. A long list of honorary degrees from American colleges completes the roster...
Sparked by high-scoring forward Pete Ravreby, the Hollis quintet downed Matthews South last Wednesday night for a special reading period tournament crown. In December they defeated Weld North, National League champions for the first half of the season, to take the pre-vacation honors...
Spain's Jewry was stunned. Its most eminent member, the great theologian Isaac Abrabanel, who had risen to be financial adviser to the Crown, pleaded with Ferdinand to rescind the edict of expulsion. According to Abrabanel's own account of the historic scene, he "wearied himself to distraction in imploring compassion." He cried: "Regard us, Ferdinand, use not thy servants so cruelly." But the King remained "more fierce than Esau." Only when Abrabanel offered him 30,000 ducats did he seem to weaken...
...subject in question was one of the 19th Century's standard true-life romantic mysteries-the deaths of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and his mistress, Mary Vetsera, in the royal hunting lodge at Mayerling, in 1889. But Author Lonyay (whose princely uncle later married Rudolph's widow) has had access to family accounts never published before; and by the time he has cut his brash trooper's path through the great romance, not all the Charles Boyers, Danielle Darrieuxs and Hollywood directors could put it together again...
...BOOK OF COSTUME (two volumes, 958 pp.) - Mi Ilia Davenport - Crown...