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...introduces herself. "I am Ayesha whom some call She Who Waits"-an appropriate sobriquet for someone who has been waiting for 20 centuries. After a kiss or two, she hands him a ring and a road map to the hidden city of Kuma beyond the Desert of Lost Souls and the Mountains of the Moon, where she will give him riches, power and herself. Leo and his friends set out posthaste...
...seventh of Sweden, one-third of Norway, and a quarter of Finland lie above the Arctic Circle. -They had the same great-great-grandfather, Denmark's King Christian IX (1818-1906), whose skill at bagging the better thrones for his children earned him the sobriquet "Father-in-law of Europe." One of his daughters was Queen Alexandra, wife of Britain's King Edward VII; another, Princess Dagmar, married Russia's Czar Alexander...
...looks big. For the tourist, there is an average temperature of 76°, fresh water aplenty (if that's what he wants), miles of beaches and a swash buckling past peopled by buccaneers and Prohibition rumrunners. Even to day, one Freeport beer baron still uses his old Chicago sobriquet, "Shotgun John." For the industrialist, there is total exemption from corporate, personal and export taxes, and the kind of environment to attract executive talent...
...chief architect of De Valera's new Fianna Fail (Heroes of Destiny) Party, which came to power in 1932 and has been in office almost continually ever since. At 32, Lemass was the youngest member of De Valera's Cabinet and earned the affectionate Biblical sobriquet "Benjamin" (after Jacob's youngest son). Though Dev had taught mathematics-and is fervently believed by many fond compatriots to be one of the 13 men on earth who comprehend the theory of relativity-the Taoiseach had neither head nor heart for economics, and left Benjamin to run his ministry...
...cochairman) over the protracted negotiations that led to the coalition government in Laos. A breezily informal administrator, MacDonald has frequently horrified pukka sahibs by allowing his photograph to be taken while walking hand in hand with bare-breasted native beauties. Among East-of-Suez Blimps, he earned the bitter sobriquet: "The Man Who Made the Sun Set on the British Empire...