Word: coronet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this session without explaining his reasons to Congress at formal length. For example, he vetoed a bill to increase Civil War pensions. As a result, the Pennsylvania Northeastern Association of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic assembled and proclaimed "that the said Calvin Coolidge wears A CORONET OF SHAME...
...mother of Irving T. Bush, owner of the famed Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, last week sent his yacht a present. The boat, building in Germany, will have no filthy foreign wine over her bows at christening. A California vintage, 40 years old, was despatched to Dresden to help entitle her Coronet...
...strolls in very late as that fabulous creature, an ascetic Italian duke. But his arrival does little to help the piece, which is melo-amorous studio stuff and none too clever at that. Doris Kenyon is present as a somewhat simpering U. S. jazzabel out on an ultimately successful coronet hunt. The header (out of a window) that wicked Count Stelio (Charles Beyer) takes is alleged actually to have dislocated the actor's neck...
Second Court. At the Second Court, the King appeared in the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Guards. Queen Mary wore a dress of pale gold lamé, ornamented with diamonds. On her head she wore a brilliant coronet of emeralds and diamonds and around her neck were priceless jewels, the most conspicuous of which was the carved Indian emerald presented to her at the Durbar...
...trail through stiff-necked, whale-oil Providence, through outwardly outraged but inwardly envious New York, through the magnificently indifferent French Imperial Court. She knew the horrors and cruelty of the French Revolution and the chaos of the subsequent Restoration; she mingled with French Royalty, later owned the sapphire coronet Napoleon had placed on Josephine's head and the emerald rings that had twinkled on that lovely Creole's toes; she dispensed hospitality in the stately Jumel Mansion in old New York, where once was Washington's headquarters; she drove her gay coach-and-four through the gaping...