Word: puppeteered
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...Occidentals are aware of Mustafa Nahass Pasha, a statesman who greatly resembles in appearance plump, black-mustachioed King Fuad I of Egypt. Politically the King and Pasha are poles apart?the Sovereign a British puppet, the statesman a firebrand Egyptian Nationalist. Therefore it is significant that, last week, King Fuad gave the Prime Ministry of Egypt to Mustafa Nahass Pasha...
From Washington, D. C., the State Department reaffirmed its inflexible purpose to supervise a "fair" election in Nicaragua. Jurists opined that both the Constitution and Chamber of Deputies of Nicaragua might possibly be circumvented by having President Adolfo Diaz of Nicaragua (a U. S. puppet) authorize U. S. supervision of the election by Presidential decree, after the Chamber has risen...
...playbills, of which there were over 350,000 in 1917, furnish an authentic history of the stage from the time of Shakespeare. The earliest playbill is that of a puppet show in Bartholomew Fair about 1682, believed to be the first playbill printed in English. In the first of the Drury Lane playbills the dramatis presonae, the names of the actors, and the author did not appear; these features were printed for the first time on the bills of 1714. It is interesting to note that many of the stars of this period resolved upon several alleged farewell performances before...
...forum and working up a factitious interest in it? It was carefully stated that the "parliamentary rather than formal manner of debate" would be used. Figs! You might as well talk about draping the stage of the Odeon with meshed gold and silver and then put on a puppet show...
...mighty and well laid. Round it the hundred widows grouped themselves for a final chorus of wails and lamentations. Slowly, reverently all that remained of Monarch Sisowath was borne to the top of the pyre and there set down. In life he had been an amiable if do-nothing puppet of France. His pleasures were slumber, meditation and degustation. Fittingly and honorably he was borne away to Buddha, amid the swelling and sizzling of mercury, and the sweet stench of aromatics...