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Jiggling atop a velvet cushion on the bier of King George, there passed through the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...hors d'oeuvres, the management offers Major Bowes "Amateur Hour" on the stage. The amateurs presented will, with training and experience, be ready for the radio or stage within a year or so. At present, and with the exception of the man who sounded more like a hen laying an egg than the hen herself, they all left this review as cold as four dollars' worth...

Author: By B. S. W., | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/7/1935 | See Source »

...viable hen's egg may be hatched in three weeks, but three months are if anything a bit brief to hatch a complicated international treaty. Nonetheless, in October liberal William Lyon Mackenzie King, campaigning before the Canadian general election, promised if he became Prime Minister to negotiate a trade treaty* with the U. S. within 90 days. Only fortnight ago Prime Minister King went to Washington to see Franklin Roosevelt and in the heat of their mutually impetuous goodwill the treaty was incubated. Last week, only seven days after Mr. King had first nested in a White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Incubator Miracle | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

Short-bodied, long-faced Irish Poet James Stephens (The Crock of Gold) lectured at the University of California. Excerpts: "I know when I have a poem the same way a hen knows she has an egg. . . . All perfect ladies are or should be cats; if they aren't they have lost their femininity and are partly male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 25, 1935 | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

McIntyre: Watch my fingers fly over the keyboard like a hen pecking up corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Columnists v. Columnist | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

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