Word: kings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...John Carroll Perkins, acting minister of King's Chapel in Boston, will conduct the service in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...
...platform in Kandahar's largest square stood throneless King Amanullah and a small ironbound box. Seizing the box firmly, plump Amanullah struggled with the iron hasp. Loudly he grunted, stoutly he tugged. So entertaining was the fat man's performance that though he sweated and wrestled on the platform for two full hours, the entire audience remained. Finally when his most vigorous contortions and loudest grunts began to pall, Amanullah paused, cried aloud to Mohammed for assistance. A final tug, and the box flew open. Perspiring Amanullah held high Mohammed's sacred cloak. Convinced, the Afghan audience...
Engagement Broken. By Princess, Irene of Greece, second-youngest daughter of the late King Constantine; with Prince Christian Schaumburg-Lippe, nephew of Denmark's King Christian...
Married. Mrs. Marcia Gluck Clark, of Manhattan, daughter of Soprano Alma Gluck Zimbalist; and Russell Wheeler Davenport, novelist (Gentleman King); in Manhattan...
...Fred L. Boalt, of Portland, Ore., onetime editor of the Portland News; at Portland. While serving the United Press in London in 1910 he penetrated to the innermost corridors of Buckingham Palace by saying mysteriously to polite guards and chamberlains: "I am the U. P. man!" Finally he met King Edward VII.'s physician and obtained a world "scoop" in these four words: "The king is dying...