Word: tiaras
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...with rancid butter to keep vermin away; an old bishop who knew the strange, sad, lame poet-adventurer Rimbaud, France's Byron, when he lived in Harar; a beautiful, brown-skinned, high-breasted Harari woman carrying a load of wood on her head as if it were a tiara ; a big black with a lion cub on a leash; an Abyssinian policeman who looks ferocious with leaves stuffed in his nostrils (he just has a cold) ; a leper from the Capuchin colony outside the walls; a crisp Italian officer in a fever of hurry and worry...
...Hudson. The Queen connived to preserve an illusion for Diana Hopkins, 7, suggested that the child see her first in her tiara for the Embassy State dinner. After that function (where Mrs. Woodrow Wilson had an inning), Their Majesties entrained for Red Bank, N. J., next morning were escorted to the destroyer Warrington at Sandy Hook. Hundreds of Britishers on chartered steamers missed them as they sailed across the Lower Bay to the Battery. Governor Lehman and Mayor LaGuardia got in behind them in a big Cadillac, squired them under prodigious police escort up the West Side express highway (chosen...
...first time since 1846 (before the Popes became "prisoners" in the Vatican). The people waited patiently while, within, Pius XII went through long rituals. At last the Pontiff appeared on St. Peter's balcony. The great moment arrived. Cardinal Deacon Caccia-Dominioni chanted "Accipe tiaram" (Receive the tiara). The crowd below saw the Cardinal lift the gem-studded, beehive-shaped triple crown of the papacy and place it on the head of its wearer. Then the multitude dropped to its knees as Pius XII raised his hand in blessing...
From the $600,000 collection brought by courier, Zog chose a diamond tiara, a bracelet, brooch and two rings. The courier and his jewel box then boarded a Rome-bound Ala Littoria (Italian) airliner for his journey to Paris. After crossing the Apennines, the liner plunged into fog, suddenly smashed into the slope of Mt. Altino near Formia. The jewel box hurtled clear, burst open and spread the gems over the ground. Startled shepherds clambered to the plane, found it a blazing wreck, with the 19 passengers and crew dead. They pocketed as many of the bright stones as they...
...Queen Mother wore a diamond tiara shaped exactly like her hats- honestly...