Word: sar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coliseum, Omaha celebrated its autumn festival, the "Coronation of His Royal Highness King Ak-Sar-Ben XXXIX and His Gracious Consort the Queen, at the Royal Castle of Quivers." Crowned King Ak-Sar-Ben XXXIX (Nebraska backwards) was Hotelman Eugene Chase Eppley, 48-year-old bachelor. Queen was Margaret Monell Doorly...
...Sar-Ben (Nebraska backwards), Omaha's autumnal jamboree, is held in conjunction with a huge livestock show...
Omaha also has a Coliseum and it was here that the 38th King & Queen of Ak-Sar-Ben held their levee in a setting modeled after the Temple of Love at Versailles. Congressman Malcolm Baldrige, as Court Chancellor, addressed the regal train, the State's best and richest young and old folk. King was William Henry Schellberg, 6-ft., silver-haired president of Union Stock Yards Co., done up in the usual Empire court dress complete with cream satin knee-pants. Long a leading figure in Omaha, he is credited with having done much to build...
Startled newshawks heard Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson thus announce Nicaragua's Vice-Presidential candidates: "Conservative, Emilia Nocha Morro; Liberal, Rudolfo Espino Sar." Soon came a revised release: Conservative, Emiliano Chamorro; Liberal, Rudolfo Espinosa...
...people of Belfast gave a fine Irish linen altar-cloth. Four of the canopy bearers were to come from the north of Ireland where Protestants predominate. Many a Protestant looker-on was expected, if only to hear Tenor John McCormack, Papal Count, sing the Panis Angelicus of César Franck. In the Mass also was to figure the holy bell of St. Patrick which, old, rusty, looking much like a modern cowbell, can still jingle weakly...