Word: queens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand vertically many times at the Kern sale* but three times he kept it in his pocket. Three times he refused to go on with the bidding, lost a coveted book to a braver bibliophile. Some top prices brought by Kern-collected editions and manuscripts: Shelley's Queen Mob, $68,000; Lamb's contribution to Hone's Table Book, $48,000; Pope's Essay on Man, $29,000; Edgar Allan Poe's letter to Mrs. B., $19,500; Swift's Gulliver's Travels, $17,000. Let no brisk, efficient young housewife entirely disregard...
Born. To King Amanullah and Queen Thuraya of Afghanistan; at Kandahar, their second-biggest city, where the King was girding his forces to recapture Kabul, the Capital, from Bandit Bacha Sakao, a son (eighth child...
...mellowest mood, the Elder Statesman added: "Royal marriages for political reasons are out of date. Even a king has now the right to choose for his queen the woman that he loves. It is true beyond a doubt that all our people ardently desire to have a queen...
...illustrated above, was built in 1808 for the unprecedented sum of half a million dollars as a sort of merchants' exchange. As the Mermaid Tavern was the meeting place of Shakespeare's circle, and the St. James Coffee House the convivial headquarters of the Whigs in the time of Queen Anne, the Exchange Coffee House in the early part of the nineteenth century was a rendezvous of the leaders of maritime Boston. The names over accounts in the ledger of John Jones, the proprietor, show that the patronage included statesmen like Daniel Webster, professional men like Harrison Gray Otis...
...When Queen Mary is getting into a temper she is apt to purse her lips and whistle softly; 2) Edward of Wales is commonly called by Palace minions "the young...