Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...streets of London last week, The Crown-with its 309 carat diamond, one of the "Stars of Africa"; its ruby big as a hen's egg from the Crown of Edward the Black Prince: the Stuart Sapphire from the Crown of Charles II: the pearl eardrops of Queen Elizabeth: the sapphire Edward the Confessor wore in his Coronation Ring. Great officials of the Kingdom were in utmost consternation when they noticed belatedly that The Crown's topping of a Maltese cross set with a square sapphire, eight medium-sized diamonds and 192 smaller diamonds had fallen off during...
...modern valuable art library; 4) published 38 different books and pamphlets; 5) put on many a radio art program; 6) established a cinema museum which is preserving for students such valued films as the first Mack Sennett custard pies, The Birth of a Nation, Sarah Bernhardt as Queen Elizabeth, the first sound picture (Al Jolson's Jazz Singer), Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire. Besides the donations from Miss Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller and others, the Museum acquired few months ago Surrealist Salvador Dali's famed canvas of the limp watches on the seashore, The Persistence of Memory (TIME...
Wreckers began to raze the house at No. 50 Wimpole St., London, where Robert Browning courted Elizabeth Barrett...
...Emily Post of Business" is Elizabeth Gregg MacGibbon, a tall, handsome, energetic Californian in her 50's. She has been a confidential secretary, an automobile editor, an advertising manager, head of her own agency. For five years she was an account executive with the big advertising firm of Erwin, Wasey & Co. Having observed business from both the inner and the outer office, she set out to advise women on how to get on in the business world. She lectures, writes a syndicated column, tours the country presenting edifying playlets in big department stores. The lead is played...
...Tuscaloosa, Ala., a family council of kin of Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth Scott, 75, who had just died of pneumonia, decided to bury her in Little Sandy Cemetery near her Taylorsville home five miles away. Bitterly her son Hugh, 57, World War veteran protested that her dying wish had been to be buried in nearby Nazareth Cemetery. Overruled, he stalked into the night. Near dawn he returned, burst in among the kinsmen keeping the death watch, brandished a shotgun, picked up his mother's body and ran outside. He flung the body across the pommel of his horse...