Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Ruler Blushes and Appears Distressed at Private Conference with Archbishops of Canterbury and York...
...more precise than what Great Britain has grown tired of hearing from Stanley Baldwin. While the Prime Minister has publicly regretted the invention of the airplane and wished it could cease to exist, the Chancellor of the Exchequer declared: "I can imagine no more sobering thought to any ruler who might be contemplating aggression against his neighbor than the knowledge that within a few hours his action might be followed by the retaliation of a force of such terrific striking power as our new air force will possess...
...proceeds more deliberately than when it is choosing a Scot, like the late great physicist Baron Kelvin or Gladstone's successor as Prime Minister, the late Earl of Rosebery, to honor with the title of Chancellor. But Lord Rectors are only disciplinary officials, Chancellors merely figureheads. The real ruler of this great and ancient University is the Principal...
...hrer is the only ruler on the Continent to lift the crushing taxes other European countries impose on motoring. The Fatherland is pushing sales of cars by every means to Germans who know they will be confiscated in wartime and used to speed troops over the strategic highways Herr Hitler is building instead of strategic railways. His reason: cars can detour around a bombed section of road while trains cannot...
Climax of Ben's life occurs when he falls in love with a queen. Ruler of a small country famed for its tyranny, she is on a visit arranging a loan; Ben meets her by accident while she is sneaking a last cigaret before a state reception begins. Although the Queen, in manner, speech and display of her girlish charms, has a good deal in common with less elevated wenches, Ben is straightway transported by his love to the isles of enchantment. At a house party with her he makes a romantic fool of himself before her worldly companions...