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Word: throned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current in highest Japanese circles last week, was that on March 1 the puppet ruler of Manchukuo, Mr. Henry Pu-yi, will be proclaimed Emperor, will surround himself with a Court largely composed of Chinese who served him when as the babe Hsuan Tung he sat on the Dragon Throne at Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANCHUKUO: Emperor by March? | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...other end of the kingdom. When an American movie star arrives on the scene just as the king is having the fungus on his chin shorn by the court barber, the king discovers the star to be his double, and goes off to Paris, leaving the actor on his throne. The new king popularizes the government by radio broadcasts of his crooning, and incidentally brings the wife back to the fold. I don't remember just how it all comes out; there are the inevitable complications, and even a bedroom scene. Bob Berger's, across the street from the Shubert...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/11/1934 | See Source »

...dition to that, the trust company is setting up no reserves and we feel that it is not as it should be." Mr. Pecora: Don't you think that your suggestions for a dividend rate for the units were looked upon as an order from the throne? Mr. Lord: I assumed that the earnings of the units were sufficient to meet the dividends. Bills Payable: "None," Second embarrassing moment for Mr. Lord came when Senator Couzens, who in Detroit is socially acquainted with him, questioned him about the statements of the Group's banks, showing that none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Senate Revelations 7: 1 | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...should have been a man, for she always acted like one. Short, ugly and unfeminine, she was a bright student and a hard worker. She liked men's company, the more Rabelaisian the better, but the idea of marriage horrified her. When she came to the throne after her father's death, she let it be clearly understood that there never would be a prince consort. Her bedfellow was a lady-in-waiting. Personally popular with her subjects, she soon got into hot water because she imported foreign intellectuals (notably Descartes) to liven up the heavy Scandinavian atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King Christina | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...angry retort, defending the Speech from the Throne, Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip became the first British Minister to criticize President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Dec. 11, 1933 | 12/11/1933 | See Source »

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