Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeing Edna May Oliver, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey go through their routines on the same set. The plot is a contest between Wheeler and Woolsey for the mythical kingdom of Eldorania which Woolsey believes he owns because he won it in a crap game with a former ruler, and which Wheeler claims because he bought an Eldoranian revolution for $100,000. Unfortunately such gags as the long dialog in which the word "well," used as an interjection, is dragged through every possible shade of meaning, and the scene where Wheeler and Woolsey come through an airplane bombing with most...
...Healy for first Governor General of the Free State in 1922 was the most brilliant political stroke that Prime Minister Bonar Law ever made. King George would never have approved anyone connected with Sinn Fein. Catholic Ireland would not have accepted anyone who was not a confirmed Home-Ruler...
...struggle between England and India there is at present a momentary pause while the future hangs uncertain. By virtue of the Imperial Conference just completed in London India has achieved a small measure of self-government. That concession by the ruler to the ruled was the result of a reluctant realization by English statesmen that that politically astute saint, Mahatma Ghandi, has aroused the hitherto cowed population of India to such a united and determined stand for independence that they were no longer willing to continue the tradition of two hundred years absolute subjugation to British authority...
Harun-al-Raschid, onetime ruler of Bagdad, made a practice of going about among his citizenry in disguise in order that he might govern them more sympathetically. Of his adventures he told many a tall tale...
Like Harun-al-Raschid and the Mayor of Philadelphia (see p. 15), H. M. Carol II, Rumania's buck-toothed ruler, sorely in need of personal popularity, last week disguised himself and went forth among his people to see how his country was running...