Word: coronet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprise. But the secret was only one day old when it fell into the hands of Mississippi's sly Senator Pat Harrison. With obvious relish he read on the Senate floor, sentence by sentence, from the "ludicrous" plan to "bedeck [the President's] brow with a coronet of praise and warm his heart with every complimentary expression." Also, he noted, the President's administrative assistant French Strother was once an editorial writer on World's Work...
...died soon after her coronation. Her body was prepared and wrapped in many thicknesses of bandage. The inner coffin which covered her corpse was decorated, according to Egyptian ritual, with a replica of her body. On the forehead was the tenon hole which had held the stolen vulture-head coronet, symbol of queenly power. The outer coffin, masterpiece of joiner's art, at one time encased in gold sheets, lying undisturbed for centuries in the dark crypt, "created an eerie effect" on Digger Winlock...
...scene shifts to France in 1812. The old Senlis tomb in the monastery is excavated by Gravedigger Jobey. He discovers the battered coronet, sells it to the blacksmith, who sells it to the jeweler. Young André Jobey enlists in the Army with a friend and they go to Russia under Napoleon. In the retreat from Moscow they meet a Russian officer, Burin, who has just lost his silver whip and is looking for it drunkenly through the snow. The whip has been picked up by somebody and given to Napoleon who passing through Senlis on his way to Paris, flings...
When the Russians arrive in Senlis in 1814, Burin, now a Count, is with the army. He recovers his long-lost whip, buys the coronet, takes them back to his estate in Russia. The Burin family fortunes gradually go from bad to worse. Nicholas, the last and one of the worst Burins, saves only the whip and the coronet from the wreck of the 1917 Revolution. He fights on against the Reds, is cornered in a Caucasian village and killed. The whip is buried with him. The coronet, stolen by one of his men and sold in Moscow, is bought...
...Author. Author Manuel Komroff, 39, married, was born in Manhattan, studied at Yale's Sheffield Scientific School and School of Music, has been art critic, foreign correspondent, newspaper editor. Other books: The Grace of Lambs, Juggler's Kiss. Coronet is the January choice of the Literary Guild...