Word: star
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proclaiming a royal birth and a royal death, the Gazette likewise trumpeted the Siamese equivalent for "Long Live The King!" Oval faced, almond eyed, inscrutable, Prince Pracha Tipok, ascended the throne of his unfortunate brother with the thankful gravity of one whose star, long dimmed, at length shines brightly. His Queen, by nature plump and radiant as a full-waxed moon, assumed likewise a fitting decorum. Both joined in extending what comfort they might to handsome Chao Chom Suvadena, Queen for a few anguished weeks, "demoted" by death...
Quoth emotional observers: "Many a dark night has passed since the great Osman, looking into a pool of blood, saw a star and the crescent moon there reflected and bethought him of a design for the Turkish flag...
...this legend is nebulous. Another version has it that a white standard upon which the hero Osman fell was stained with his blood into the famed device. His scimiter, on which he lay, produced the crescent; similarly a diadem, crushed beneath him, prevented the blood from staining a white star-shaped patch...
...Immanuel Kant. The years have failed to shake his prestige; he looks on tempests and is never shaken. The shrewd American, Marshall, did well in the first rounds of the tournament; the great Russian, Bogoljubow, lived up to expectations; a young man named Torre rose like a red ascending star out of Mexico; but these the press passed over with a glance to direct its attention at José R. Capablanca, Champion of the World...
Davis was a regular right guard on this year's Big Three championship team and played the position as a substitute last year. Two years ago he was the star lineman of the Freshman team, and also captained the Freshman water polo outfit...