Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maybe it was his immense dignity. He was still the center of everything and the head of the table, among those men whom he once guided and counselled. He was still the ruler standing underneath his towers and surveying monuments called by his name. He didn't cut the cake skillfully or neatly, but his actions seemed to have the slowness of deliberation and dignity rather than impotence...
...exemplary private life that Queen W'ilhelmina lived blended well with her shrewd qualities as a ruler. Not a breath of scandal has ever touched her. Few if any bits of gossip ever got through the cold, exclusive circle of Dutch nobility that surrounded the court. She was the good mother, the conscientious leader, the faithful churchgoer. Because of her strong Calvinism, her words came to carry almost a scriptural weight among the nobility of The Hague and Utrecht, the patrician families of Amsterdam, all the older townspeople and villagers in the strongly Protestant North. Nor could...
Realism. No one has given Wilhelmina more trouble in recent years than Adolf Hitler, and from no ruler has the Führer taken, at times, such straight talk. She protested in a personal letter to Herr Hitler the death sentence passed on Marinus van Der Lubbe, the Dutch Communist, for his alleged part in the famed Reichstag fire. When the Nazis confiscated the passports of German bridesmaids and guests to her daughter's wedding, she stated with quiet directness: "This is the marriage of my daughter to the man she loves, whom I have found worthy...
Then came a brand new question: Identify the contemporary ruler or political bigwig who is i) a shoemaker's son, 2) a baker's son, 3) a blacksmith's son, 4) a bastard's son. They got the first three in short order: Stalin, Daladier, Mussolini. For No. 4, Oscar Levant's candidate was Adolf Schickelgruber. A woman in the audience disagreed.* "Wasn't he, really?" queried Fadiman, glancing owlishly around. "Well," spake John Kieran, beating Fadiman to the evening's punch line, "he is, if he wasn...
Most spectacular Afghan ruler was Reformer-King Amanullah, who got his throne after his father had been assassinated and his uncle ousted. Amanullah had bright ideas about westernizing his backward, picturesque kingdom, but unfortunately for him he also accepted millions of dollars in gifts from the British while playing ball with the Russians. In 1929 His Majesty, "out of patriotic and friendly feelings and of his own free will," abdicated and hastily caught a plane for points west. Since then Afghanistan has changed its rulers three times. Present Afghan ruler is Amanullah's cousin, 25-year-old Mohammed Zahir...