Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Archduke Otto was about to be restored to the Habsburg throne...
...only son, for love of a pretty Swedish debutante, became Mr. Bernadotte. That left the old King the four fine sons of his eldest son, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, enough for any monarch. Last week it looked as if there were not four but three grandsons fit for the throne...
...guard of 5,000 troops was set round the still incomplete Imperial City. In an open courtyard a few handpicked correspondents saw court dignitaries in dragon gowns and fur hats with jeweled buttons bow low to the ground before a stuffed dummy on a lacquered and jeweled ebony throne. Blinking, spectacled Henry Pu Yi was about to become Manchu Emperor of the new state of Ta Manchu Tikuo, until last week Manchukuo, until two years ago Manchuria...
While the old lady watched, Little Pu Yi was robed in imperial yellow and placed on the dragon throne as the Emperor Hsuan Tung. Next day the Dowager Empress died suddenly. Prince Chun became Regent and the Emperor Hsuan Tung went back to his nursery. At the age of six, he emerged briefly to abdicate after the successful revolution of Canton's great Sun Yatsen. He continued to live in the Forbidden City, studying with his British tutor. Sir Reginald Johnston, a former customs official of Weihaiwei. and attempting to collect the magnificent salary of $4,000,000 that...
...palaces of my ancestors, Justinian, Augustus Caesar and Nero. In fact, they did not know so much about splendor-they were just pikers. That building up there -oh, it's just gorgeous. Take the grand jury room, for instance. After sitting there on a ball-bearing throne in luxury that Romans never knew, the juror will go home and say Phooey!' Why, that room is so spacious that no witness will ever come within 40 feet of the jury. And the whole thing is air-conditioned. . . . If a juror wants to talk to the fellow in back...