Word: unworn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Unworn Crown. Pious Jugoslavs, shivering bareheaded in the chilling rain, prayed aloud in unison as the stately Orthodox service began in Belgrade Cathedral, pack-jammed with royalty, statesmen and the corps diplomatique. Weeping beside the Duke of Kent was Princess Marina. Her brother-in-law Prince Paul, Jugoslavia's pallid, scholarly Chief Regent, barely controlled his grief. On a high platform upon a great throne chair sat 11 year-old King Peter II, big-eyed, erect and at times somewhat puzzled. Below him lay his murdered father King Alexander I in a simple oak coffin...
...improve with age. This can hardly ever be said of machine-produced articles whose uniformity of texture and lack of vitality (and the same applies to pottery no less than to textiles) cause them to slak back into shabbiness and monotony the moment their novelty as fashions and their unworn freshness have departed...