Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scapegoat of the Benes agreement, according to news from Teheran, is Abdol Hussein Khan Teymourtache whom the Shah has dismissed from office as his Chief Marshal of the Court and Minister of State. Twenty-two years ago, long before Reza Shah Pahlevi usurped the throne, young Abdol Teymourtache, a clerk in the Persian Finance Ministry, was picked for advancement by the then U. S. Fiscal Adviser to Persia, W. Morgan Schuster. Young Abdol rose steadily to No. 1 court rank...
After seven long years of watching French politics from Belgium, the Bourbon Pretender to the throne of France, six-foot, curly-whiskered Monseigneur Le Duc de Guise, decided last week that things were at last going badly enough for him to issue his first public appeal for restoration...
...other ingenious execution. The dog, regarded with religious awe by Chinese masses, was as much a mystery to them as to foreigners. The Emperor's dogs were his constant companions. They rode before him in the saddle, lay beside him on the couch, sat with him on the throne. To him the association attested his own divine nature. On his favorite beasts he bestowed titles of duke and prince, regal incomes, princely retinues. Puppies were suckled by waiting-women whose own girl babies had been conveniently drowned...
Realistically brown, wearing a baby-blue coat, red pants, patent leather boots and spurs, Tibbett sat himself insolently on a red plush throne, put his feet up on the arm, began magnificently to impersonate Emperor Jones. In soft, natural Negro dialect, perfectly suited to the smooth, dark color of his voice, he boasted about how he had fooled the natives, telling them that only a silver bullet could kill him. He boasted about his record back in the States where he had killed two men. broken jail. Then Smithers told him about the savages on the hill. They were molding...
Mainichi, Nichi-Nichi and Asahi long dominated the Tokyo and Osaka fields. In 1930 a potential rival, Hochi (News), passed into the hands of the man whom Motoyama's death left sitting on Japan's journalistic throne. He is Seiji Noma, "The Magazine King." A big round-faced man with a big ragged mustache. Publisher Noma likes to call himself and be called "The King." He named one of his magazines King. He gives presents, such as scarves, with King stamped all over. Validating the title is the combined circulation of his nine magazines-more than...