Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gentlemen, the solution to this situation is to be found in the antecedents of the British ruler, the secret to it is the parentage of Queen Anne...
...week the Fine Arts presents "The Merry Monarch," a whimsical tale of the mythical Kingdom of Trypheme. Not charted on any map and thus unknown to the rest of the world, this little island carries on an idyllic existence which is perhaps best represented in the person of its ruler, Emil Jannings. He has 366 wives, one for each day in the year. In sumptuous palaces and on a sizeable yacht, beloved by all his subjects, beset by no problems of state, this merry monarch lives for pleasure alone...
...correspondents who sought to approach His Majesty Power of Trinity in blistering Addis-Ababa last week expected to hear him exclaim "I is right glad to see you all ! Now I is gwine tell you how this all is" they were abysmally mistaken. The sharp-featured, politically cunning ruler of between five and ten million savage and uncounted blacks is emphatically the suave cream in Africa's strong coffee. If the accustomed garb of Power of Trinity is particolored, gorgeous and outlandish, if His Majesty finds a real lion's mane appropriate headgear in his role of Conquering...
...ever possible wholly to dissociate the two. In the Middle Ages, especially in the XIIIth century, Christianity attained its cultural heights: "Europe has seen no greater Christian here than St. Francis, no greater Christian philosopher than St. Thomas, no greater Christian poet than Danto, perhaps even no greater Christian ruler than St. Louis." For the Christian the XIIIth is unquestionably the greatest of centuries, and Mr. Dawson's discussion of the elements in the whole prior development which culminated in that age is at once masterly and full. One would like, above all to linger over more of his statements...
...Rumanian Senate, they assumed that, as usual, his sallies would be spicy. For once Jorga spoke fairly seriously: "If His Majesty has sinned it is because he is human. Whoever gossips about a woman is vulgar and mean, and whoever thinks of the King as other than a ruler is out of order. Dabbling in gossip is unworthy of statesmen and characteristic of knaves and servants. All we have a right to demand of the King is that he know thoroughly the needs of the country. It is false doctrine to assert that the King should not even love someone...