Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North, hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi, Japan's puppet ruler of Manchukuo, wondered how soon he would be returned to his old home. A faction in the Japanese Supreme War Council was known to be waiting only for spring and the thawing of the roads to driv.e straight to Peiping and set Henry Pu Yi back on a throne in the Forbidden City...
...Government found him far from his dominion, of which he is the tenth ruler. But he was neither napping nor, except intermittently, loafing. With his famed vice president, Elisha Lee, and a staff of high executives, he was halfway through his annual survey tour of North America. Routing his private car on a great swing down through the Southwest to Mexico City and up the Pacific Coast where he was last week, he had planned to swing homeward through Canada. Then came his country's call for counsel and advice, and almost simultaneously an advance copy of the report...
...death angered Calvin Coolidge's White House physician, square-cut Colonel James Francis Coupal. who last week cried as many a time before he had cried: "No nation in the world puts such a burden on its ruler as America does. ... It is a man-killing job." But he admitted: "He [President Coolidge] himself said that he was in better physical condition when he left the White House than when he entered it." Only six of the 29 past Presidents were younger than Calvin Coolidge's 60 years when they died, and three of the six died...
Irish friends of the Seneschal (literally "Old Servant") pointed out that in medieval times the seneschal or major-domo of a King often achieved more power than his master, became the real ruler...
...gardenias last week. There were a great many mink coats, and gentlemen carrying chamois gloves in their inverted bowlers. On the walls were brilliant, brittle portraits in flat, bright color of very smart people immaculately dressed, and decorative landscapes in which trees and houses were frankly drawn with ruler and compass. Bernard Boutet de Monvel was having his first New York exhibition in five years...