Word: monarchs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Anna Leonowens entered the service of the King of Siam, that progressive monarch had 9,000 women in his harem. They lived in a small city adjoining his palace. In the center was a garden and artificial lake, where the princesses bathed and picked water lilies. There was a theater, a gymnasium, a temple where Anna Leonowens taught English. There were blacksmith shops, slave quarters, barracks for the amazon guards. King Mongkut and a few priests were the only men allowed inside its high stone walls...
Money Talks Louis B. Mayer, M.G. Monarch just separated from his wife after 40 years of marriage, was separated from $560,000 of his proposed $1,060,000 salary for 1944 (his million-plus last year made him the U.S.'s highest-salaried swivel chairman). Loew's Inc., which signs M.G.M. pay checks, proposed the money-saving, as part of a program to provide a retirement plan for M.G.M.'s 4,300 workers (including William Powell, Clark Gable, Wallace Beery and Spencer Tracy, whose annual pensions would be $49,700 each...
...Order of the Bath was established by Henry IV at his coronation in 1399, was later forgotten, was revived by George I in 1725. It is doubtful whether the ceremony had any connection with the actual ablutions of the monarch...
Founded in 1694 in the reign of King William of Orange, expressly to make credit available to that hard-pressed monarch in his wars with the French, the Bank of England is the heart and center of Britain's far-flung financial system. Under its leadership the pound sterling became, in the 19th Century, a universal currency...
...King's richly decked tent the Generals got a royal welcome. Ibn Saud liked the Lend-Lease pretties, gave a little Lend-Lease-in-Reverse: to each visitor an Arab costume, headgear and all; to the Generals, jewel-studded swords; to their aides, watches and daggers. The monarch, according to old Arab custom, pressed his guests to stay at least three days. But the Generals were not on vacation. Two hours after their arrival they said farewell, climbed aboard their modern magic carpet, turned Cairoward...