Word: monarch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill King Fuad refused to sign would have prevented a repetition of the 1928 coup d'état, when the puppet monarch dissolved Parliament and ruled with a puppet government headed by Mohamed Mahmud Pasha (TIME, July 30, 1928). Defied, wrathful Nahas Pasha replied to his sovereign by resigning and then- against all precedent-marched back into Parliament and, although no longer Prime Minister, asked and received a tempestuous vote of confidence...
...would guarantee living to a ripe old age. Horn walking sticks or wands were still more powerful. The latter, which in today's money were worth well over $100,000, were manufactured from walrus and elephant tusks. Most great cathedral treasuries owned one; they were necessary adjuncts to a monarch's wardrobe...
...from out the East. Allahabad's ancient altars, Allah ruled, were not the least. . . . Oboe outbursts blatted blithely, beating drums too, bellowed near. Bedizened elephants and camels, caused a ringing round of cheer. This was time for fun and feasting, flout all thought of foolish fear. But a monarch of the forest flung his head in furious rage, Naught he cared for sovereign sahib, sought some foe now to engage; While the crowd in panic parted, perilled pundits sought a sage. . . . Through the throng just then there thundered, Than upon his tawny steed. Here the crowd went wild with...
...general manager who will figuratively shovel out these tons of bonds may be a "boy"' but is ripe in tradition. King Louis XV of France was "carved" (as His Majesty expressed it) by Surgeon François Quesnay (ancestor) whom the monarch nicknamed Le Penseur for his philosophical cast of mind. The present M. Quesnay might be called a "career man" of the Bank of France. He functioned as chief French technical advisor last year when Rumania's Leu was being stabilized. At the first and second Hague Conference he prepared the whole documental background of the French...
Next to Japan, Hungary is the most monarchial nation, all the more so because it has no monarch. As U. S. citizens yearn for liquids the Constitution forbids, so Hungarians, because the Allies will not permit the restoration of the Habsburgs, passionately want a king...