Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty, Emperor Hirohito, who knows that he is directly descended from the all-creating Sun Goddess as firmly as Japanese know anything, the Divine Sovereign had of course no concern with last week's election...
Putting Temple on the educational map has been the work of Dr. Conwell's successor, tall, bronzed Charles Ezra Beury (pronounced "Beery"). Like his neighbor. Dr. Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Beury was a banker before he became a college president. A son of the rich, coal-operating Beurys for whom Beury, W. Va., is named, Charles Ezra Beury graduated from Princeton in 1903. When he received a law degree from Harvard three years later it was in absentia because that day he was marrying the Lutheran pastor's daughter in his native Shamokin...
...British Industries Fair just outside London last week, His Majesty assumed the status of the world's first Salesman Sovereign. His vigorous efforts so to conduct himself as King that he would sell, sell and SELL chanced to benefit chiefly the following British firms which incurred the attention of His Majesty...
Christy & Co., who displayed as a novelty an antique London Bobby's hat, were disconcerted when their salable goods were disregarded by the Sovereign Salesman. Picking up the antique and striking the counter smartly with it, His Majesty commented: "That would stand a good hefty blow...
...drastically obeyed order to "liquidate the kulak as a class." Let not Reader Ober rob the Dictator of terroristic laurels sweet to an Old Bolshevik whose proudest boasts are always about the number of years he spent in jail for crimes committed in Tsar Nicholas' reign.-ED. Sovereigns to Left Sirs: I note in your issue of Feb. 3, under the article "Make a Big V!" the statement: "In successive reigns the head of the Sovereign on coins and stamps faces alternately left & right. Thus Queen Victoria faces left, King Edward VII right, King George V left." Not being...