Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mouths of baby tumblebugs and suckling pigs, he was engaged in mild satires on religion (The Bishop's Wife, There Is Another Heaven). But Depression, if it did not quite succeed in bringing him down to solid earth, at least caused him to desert the seraphim and the kingdom of talking brutes. His first real commercial success, One More Spring, followed the fortunes of a group of indigent outcasts who sought shelter in a street cleaner's tool shed in Central Park. Still in the realm of fantasy, this rueful little fable cut close enough to the essence...
...Arabs under Feisal had helped the Allies on the promise of an independent Arab kingdom. Instead, the Allies gave Feisal Syria under a French mandate. When Feisal took his kingship seriously, the French kicked him out. Chastened, he was given the British mandate of Irak. Complained he: "European statesmen are like impressionist paintings. The effect at a distance is excellent...
...market as long as possible. The French, however, with no oil of their own, wanted their Irak oil at once. King Feisal, too, wanted his oil royalties, the chief prop of his State's income. Soon afterward Britain ended its mandate over Irak and gave Feisal his kingdom free and clear, with full membership in the League of Nations. Feisal began to develop plans to use his oil royalties to irrigate Irak and change it from a pocked desert land to its oldtime Garden of Eden state...
Norway's morose Haakon VII could thank his stars that in 1934 his Kingdom enjoyed the largest export business since the War, nearly double the volume for 1933. Down in Copenhagen hard-jawed Christian X felt safer because Danish workmen, mostly ardent Socialists, are now only 18% enrolled upon the dole, a magnificent drop from...
...pompous person drew himself up, sputtered in Rumanian for some minutes. "He says that the Kingdom of Rumania and the Soviet Union have recognized each other." explained an interpreter. "He says he is the Minister Plenipotentiary of King Carol and that this is his diplomatic passport...