Word: ruler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Behold! bad and unwholesome Butter is served 'at unto as daily; now let us therefore depute Asa, the Scribe, to go unto our Ruler, and seek Redress...
...There arose Asa, the Scribe, and went unto Belcher, the Ruler, and said, behold our Butter stinketh, and we cannot eat thereof; now give us we pray thee Butter that stinketh...
...Belcher the Ruler, said, trouble me not but begone unto thine own palace; but Asa obeyed...
...forms of government, the dictatorship moves with most speed. And among dictators, Premier Pangalos rivals Mussolini for absoluteness and Mustafa for ingenuity. The Greek ruler's latest bid for fame is based on financial wizardry of a sort Monsieur Caillaux never conceived of. By simple proclamation, so "Time" reports, Pangalos forces every possessor of a bank note with a face value of more than twenty five drachmas to snip an end therefrom. The snipped notes, worth three quarters of the legend printed on them, continue to circulate dolefully while the other quota goes to the "National Forced Loan...
Nevertheless they quarried out the plaster, came to the first step, then to other and removed blocks of masonry. Finally they came to the bottom and found that their surmises were correct. There was no tomb entrance at the foot of the stairway. Perhaps, after some great ruler had had the cut made, he decided to be buried elsewhere. Perhaps the ancient king had died prematurely, had been disposed of hastily and the stairs filled...