Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proud young Amir of Afghanistan is the despot of a mountain realm rising like a sword between British India and Asiatic Russia. He divides one from the other, defies both. Last week the Amir Amanullah (literally "The Sovereign Lord 'Peace of God' ") set foot upon European soil at Naples, sped by specal train to Rome, began an extensive tour of the Occident...
Snowflakes, light and fluffy, powdered impudently, last week, the Sovereign Principality of Monaco. A bleak sea breeze whipped in across the Casino terrace, whining up long avenues of shivering palms. At the gaming rooms warmth and pulsing chance continued to abide?for business is business?but in a private room at the Casino de Paris, nearby a group of solemn diners pushed back their chairs, lifted their glasses slowly, and drank a last deep toast to "Poor Camille...
...treaty signed last week accomplished all requisite trumpeting. It dressed up the well-known dependence of Albania upon Italy in the guise of an "unalterable defensive alliance" between sovereign states. With this counterblast against the Franco-Jugoslav treaty, Signor Mussolini perhaps dazzled and reassured some impressionable Italians. The feelings of non-Italians were well echoed by the Journal des Debats of Paris which called the treaty "a gesture of bad humor...
...Although she is the mother of King Michael (Mihai), she ranks below his grandmother, Dowager Queen Marie, because the latter has been a reigning sovereign, while Princess Helene...
...Briefly stated," Professor Kennelly said, "the purpose of the conference was to define the sovereign radio rights of the nations represented, and to agree upon a schedule of wave lengths such that no nation would interfere with the radio operations of any other power...