Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Little Otto" held, last week, his first "Royal Levee" at the old palace in Lequeitio, Spain, where he has been reared by his mother, ex-Empress and Queen Zita (TIME, Jan. 24, 1927). Well known is the fact that sympathetic, generous King Alfonso XIII of Spain contributes to the support of young "King Otto...
Tethmosis III quarreled with his stepmother Queen Hatshepsut over her doings in her temple at Dier el Bahri (Thebes). Angry Tethmosis took all the temple statues, smashed them to bits, threw the debris into a quarry pit, where diggers have found them and assembled some into the original shapes...
...Beisan's wealth. It was of such civilization that Jeremiah complained: Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven [Ashtoreth], and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods that they may provoke me [God] to anger.-Book of Jeremiah...
...passed muster. The necklace was conceived. Pearl by perfect pearl, it grew until six months ago the fifty-ninth completed the only famous necklace now in existence. All the others have been broken up, have disappeared: the Comtesse de Castiglione's was sold for $84,000 in 1901; Queen Sophie of Holland's (133 pearls) was sold for $188,000; a few years ago, Carder distributed the $1,000,000 Thiers necklace...
Many magnificent and historic individual gems still survive. Black, Starr & Frost has an emerald presumably from the Russian Crown collection. Tiffany recently acquired a ruby considered the finest it ever owned. Last week, Queen Mary of England attended the opening of Parliament wearing the Cullinan diamond, largest in the world, estimated to be worth...