Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crashing climax of Director Golterman's Aïda came with the triumph of the Egyptian king at the Act II finale. Eight hundred voices (including the Aframerican chorus) filled the wide night air, 100 dancing girls disported before the monarch and on the lawn in front of the mammoth stage were massed Egyptians on real camels† and a troop of the Cleveland mounted Police disguised as Bedouins...
...Pittsburgh, police found Genevieve Monarch Miller in a car with three men, her arm bloody with the letters ED MILLER, carved into the flesh by a penknife. Arrested, forced into a hospital, Mrs. Miller explained that she had allowed her husband to carve her. "I love him," said Genevieve Monarch Miller...
...long ago Reza Pahlevi, the King of Kings, the Shah of Shahs, self-made Monarch & Boss of Persia, looked upon neighboring Russia's Five Year plan and found much of it good. What most strongly impressed His Majesty was the titanic bargaining power in world markets of a nation which, like Soviet Russia, places its entire foreign trade in the hands of a State Monopoly...
...maritime nations but Russia, the master of a vessel at sea is an absolute monarch. He has absolute control over his crew and passengers, can marry or bury them. Until last week discipline on Soviet ships was in the hands of trades union committees, elected by the crews, which might consist of a cabin boy, two oilers and the purser. It did not work so well. Last week by order of the Council of Labor and Defense, Russian captains became in fact masters of their vessels again...
...America for my chance, and I got it there. . . . I am by way of being a student of history. I know that the jester always pays, for the king inevitably kicks him downstairs. The most famous court clowns eventually are beheaded. But what happens to the monarch then? In nearly every case, kicking the jester has presaged the fall of the throne. . . . Patriotism is the greatest insanity the world has ever suffered. I've been all over Europe in the past few months. Patriotism is rampant everywhere, and what is going to be the result? Another war! I hope...