Word: gold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Collars': "Since his young days the King has remained faithful to the tie which slips through a gold ring. He has adopted the double collar; one cut on orthodox lines, neither opening so widely as that of the Prince of Wales nor with such deep points as that of the Duke of York...
...placed upon a catafalque. Splendrously a mass was sung. Then reverent hands lowered the Queen Mother to her last rest in the Panteon de los Reyes. There many a sovereign of Spain?including Maria Christina's husband, Alfonso XII?already, lay, each in a black marble sarcophagus lettered in gold. Into a similar sarcophagus went Maria Christina Henrietta Desiree Felicite Réniére de Espana...
...Vatican supplied a gold pen with which the document was signed, in deathly secrecy; and afterward back went the pen to the museum of the Vatican...
...representative in Rumania will be a Frenchman, suave Charles Rist. Last week M. Rist resigned as a Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, hopped a train for Bucharest. There he will assist the new Peasant Government of Rumania (TIME, Nov. 19) to place the leu on an absolute gold basis at its present rate of exchange, 167.18 lei to the dollar...
...50th Street may see it and be impressed, is the legend: "Through these portals pass the most beautiful girls in the world." This vanity of Earl Carroll's is not without some justification: the vapid beauty of his mannequins, who haughtily undulate to the clinking music of gold in the Carroll coffers, is without superior in any professional or amateur congress of pulchritude. Awareness of beauty in women seems to be developed in Showman Carroll to a degree beyond that of any of his competitors. More than this cannot be said in favor of Fioretta, but this should be said...