Word: figurehead
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...sails the Ship of 1934 into the Sea of Life. We have spent many happy hours smashing bottles over they prow, proud ship, even going so far as to remove the figurehead and install a bottle-opener...
...recent appointment of Mr. Gummere promises that the position of Chairman will assume new importance and influence the policies of the University to a greater extent than it has before. No longer must the Chairman remain a figurehead guided by traditional policies and pursuing his routine work with no opportunity for the expression of original ideas or the introduction of new plans...
...these knew what the Occidental Press had not bothered to find out. Behind the youth who is now Emperor of Annam, docile Vinh Tuy, whose reign is known as Bao Dai. is a dynasty scarcely 150 years old. The preceding dynasty was a figurehead for two powerful families. One of these was the family of Nguyen. With the aid of a French bishop...
...last week's other new monarch, Leopold III of Belgium. But the Japan that picked him from the Chinese discard ten years ago has not paid his bills for nothing. Japan needs him as a symbol before the world of Manchukuo's independence, a hollow-eyed figurehead to distract Manchurian peasants with the pomp of a royal court...
...little too ambitious and enthusiastic for his own good. Foxy Leonard Tasker, an expert not only in manufacturing but in juggling a balance sheet, thought Walter would make a hard-working cat's-paw. With no trouble he lured Walter away from his job, set him up as figurehead of one of his own mills. For a while Walter thought he was being very successful. His quick rise brought him up the necessary social notches that separated him from the girl of his dreams. Safely married to her, with his own house and car, he thought he ought...