Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week the Army had the answer. The Hesse heirlooms, including fistfuls of diamonds, rubies and emeralds, gemmed bracelets, solid gold service pieces, a red plush autograph book first signed in 1603, and a gold-bound Bible-a wedding gift of England's Queen Victoria to her daughter and Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia-were on exhibit in the Army Public Relations director's office in Washington. The Army valued them at $3,000,000. While newsmen stared and photographed them, the Army told fantastic bits & pieces of the story of their recovery...
...hilltop palace he settled down on his throne-a raised, overstuffed armchair. The tough, aging (64) little man wore a simple black silk abbaya (flowing robe) with a gleaming white shirtfront, a white and gold headdress, and the gold chain which in Arab countries takes the place of a crown. Near him were his two sons and his kinsman Abdul Ilah, Regent of Iraq (which Abdullah dreams of drawing into a Greater Syria federation...
...Chicago, Jan. 6, 1879) with a silver spoon in his mouth. After Groton, like his cousin, he went to Yale. A year before his graduation, he traipsed off to China to run messages for correspondents covering the Boxer Rebellion. His father, Robert W. Patterson, was Joseph Medill's crown prince on the Tribune, and gave young Joe his first $15-a-week job. Impatient with the plodding Tribune and full of admiration for Hearst, he quit in disgust, won a seat in the Illinois legislature, stumped Chicago for a reform candidate for mayor, was rewarded with...
...triumph, landed in a triple tie for fifth place by shooting a score of 171. Mulcahy's 82-81, which nosed out Jack Harvey, of Boston College, by two strokes, was the highest score ever to win the event and made him the fourth Harvardian to wear the crown...
...Part II events move downward, and the drama becomes muffled and intermittent. Hotspur lies slain by Hal; the rebels are betrayed and broken; guilt-laden Henry, who had usurped Richard II's crown, sickens and dies; Falstaff roisters now without his Prince, "Who-when he becomes his King-brutally dismisses him. Only for Hal does glory lie ahead...