Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus in Brussels last week postulated His Eminence Joseph Ernest Cardinal van Roey, successor to the late, great Cardinal Mercier...
...rest. Thus last week King Alfonso XIII, last absolute monarch in western Europe, switched back into the vein of dictatorship-this time with a salt-sea flavor. In receiving the oaths of his two military dictators (the late General Primo de Rivera and his successor General Berenguer), blue-jawed Alfonso always wore the uniform of a field marshal. Smart King. Soon all around King Alfonso rose, denser than usual, the heady perfume of praise. All his courtiers told His Majesty that he had just played superlatively well a most difficult hand at statecraft, finessing the Republican parties, easing out that...
...Melba sing "Home Sweet Home," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," Tosti's "Goodbye." Opera crowds have seen her as Mimi in La Bohème, Violetta in La Traviata, Marguerite in Faust, Gilda in Rigoletto, Lucia, Juliette. The pure and springlike quality of her voice established her as Patti's greatest successor. It lasted her well through middle age because she used it so intelligently, won her triumphs for 40 years. Melba's life was as glamorous as the prima donna of fiction. She made her American debut at the Metropolitan in 1893 five days after famed Emma Calve made hers...
...only have dates been named but frequent conjectures as to his successor have also been made. There has been no definite information of any sort on the matter, however, and none is likely to come for some time...
...morning newspaper made as its excuse for running the story the point that the resignation was being announced now so that there would be sufficient time in which to choose a successor. The same reason was given recently by President Hibben of Princeton when announcing his intended resignation in 1932 at that time...