Word: coronet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white, high-necked, long-sleeved, as Vatican etiquette demands. Half shrouded by a white lace mantilla, her regal head carried a proud coronet, and upon the black cordon of Malta across her bosom depended in eight strands the fabulous Pearls of Savoy, huge as pale butter balls...
...apply here. A broad and high forehead and a reflective cast of countenance give Irving T. Bush more the aspect of a philosopher than a successful businessman. After a preparatory school education at Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and a cruise round the world on his father's yacht, the Coronet, young Bush began to dream of his great terminal scheme. In 1902 he founded Bush Terminal, Inc., and began to build six small warehouses and a pier. When the big railroads ignored his tiny terminal, he called it to their attention by buying many a carload of hay in Michigan...
Last November official Austria celebrated her 80th birthday. White hair piled high like a coronet, figure carried as proudly as it once held Brunnhilde's shield, Lilli Lehmann heard President Michael Hainisch confer on her the title of "Professor," listened as he rehearsed her glorious performances at the Vienna Opera in the days of the Empire, her efforts in behalf of the Mozart Festivals in Salzburg...
Whether or not he thrice refused a coronet, George William Norris did not announce last week. But he announced something else. He said he was hopeless of a Third Party ticket this year. He said that the Issue was the Power Trust. He said he favored non-partisan support of "progressive" Congressional candidates this year, regardless of party ticket. He assumed that "nothing new will transpire in the Presidential contest." Hence the thing for "progressives" to do is to increase their balance of power in Congress and as soon as possible amend the Constitution to provide for direct popular election...
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 gold and platinum studded with pebbles. The banquet menu, however, was less incongruous. Delicate appetizers, including three kinds of caviar, were followed by an exquisite bisque, then many a fish, roast game in abundance, a fragile salad, and fruits from every quarter of the Soviet Union, some fresh and some...