Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Popping up among the brides & bridegrooms, club-footed Dr. Goebbels urged them, all at the top of his lungs to increase & multiply, bestowed on each couple "a picture of myself and family" (i. e. self, wife, daughter & stepson). But at sundown there came a sobering voice from the unterrified Throne of St. Peter. The Pope had decided to sign a "concordat" with the Nazis. And even Dr. Goebbels' Press could not disguise the fact that the "concordat" left the Pope unconditional master of his German flock in all that pertained to religion...
...Professor of Geology at the University of Washington. Gem of the Fuller collection and chief treasure of the new museum in a consultation room brought intact from the old Peiping Palace of Henry Pu Yi. Here are tomb jades and T'ang idols, furniture, an Emperor's throne, porcelain and statuary - possibly the finest private collection of oriental art in the U. S. Away from the Manchu driblets, the rest of the Seattle Art Institute's collection drops sharply in value. With little money to spend for paintings, Dr. Fuller showed his good sense by filling...
...exiled Spanish Court circles at Fontainebleau morose courtiers remarked that succession to the Throne now rests with ex-King Alfonso's second son, Don Jaime, born a deaf mute and with difficulty educated up to croaking talk...
...Juan of Our Days," he was in constant fun-paying arrears. "My good living with pretty gerls cost me planty money and brogth me in the claws of those wampyres of the humanity-the crooky jew usurers." Once he was elected (under an assumed nationality) to the throne of Bulgaria, but a barber recognized him and spoiled it all. He made and lost fortunes at the gaming table, hobnobbed with royalty, became kingpin of a polyglot community in Siberia, escaped to the U. S. ("the Contry of the Gold Devil"), where he pyramided another flimsy fortune, gradually subsided into...
Though Siamese scrapped the divine rights of their smart little King Prajadhipok last year he managed to keep his throne, popped out of the revolution a constitutional monarch (TIME, July 4, 1932). Last week His Majesty and curvesome Queen Rambai Barni startled Bangkok. Despite bickering in the Siamese Army which led to the sudden resignation of four high officers. Their Majesties announced serenely that next January they will leave Siam on a leisurely second visit...