Word: studdedness
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Mrs. Tuttle possesses the accomplishment of wearing a high comb (occasionally diamond studded) with the authentic air of a peeress supporting a tiara. Such gracious poise, when supported by copious and persuasive League small talk, has converted many a Manhattan parson, brought round numerous editors and educators, and secured-hearty...
For King Amanullah an album studded with jewels. Peering within His Majesty beheld photographs of Angora as a muddy, nondescript village, which it was in 1920, when the Young Turks set up their capital there to be out of reach of Allied War boats. Naturally the album contained other photographs...
Banquets & Portents. To provide festivity on the night of Their Majesties' arrival a banquet and a ball were given, with all Russians present attired, according to sex, in double-breasted serge suits, or the plainest of frocks. The setting, a refurbished and resplendent palace, seemed like a coronet of...
Through his capital, Phnôm-Penh, the body of King Sisowath was borne, last week, in a jewel-studded golden urn, displayed atop a tall, pyramid-like funeral car. At the time of his death, the once straight and stocky King Sisowath, delight of his 100 wives, had been...
Before the funeral car advanced 200 heralds and standard bearers, caparisoned, magnificent. Squealing and rasping followed an immense native orchestra. Next came, lumbering and lurching, a score of royal elephants bearing jewel-studded howdahs. Shielded by the howdah curtains sat King Monivong and others of the blood royal whose stern...