Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Less at ease were the members of the 17th Parliament's third session who waited inside. Easy-going democrats, they might be addressed at any moment from the galleries with a "Howzit, Ed?" They breathed easier as Lord Bessborough sat clown on the throne. Lady Bessborough sat at his left. Behind her stood the Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen, last-minute choice of Conservative Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett for Government leader. On either side in full regalia stood representatives of the church and diplomatic corps, white-wigged Supreme Court. Black Rod (Parliamentary usher) left to sum mon the Commons...
...Hari Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, held on with both hands last week as his throne shook. Rich Kashmir, sometimes called "a paradise on earth," has a population of 3,300,000, of whom 80% are Moslems. But Sir Hari is a Hindu who holds his job through the good offices of Great Britain. Last week, while Britain was busy in the south, 12,000 Moslems streamed out of the Punjab, started north toward Srinagar with the object of dethroning Sir Hari and completing a solid block of Moslem states from Egypt to Central Asia. Near Rajaori, just...
...Hari tried unsuccessfully to hide his identity as victim in a blackmail plot under the pseudonym of "Mr. A." He saved himself $750,000, but had to call upon the British to attain his throne a year later. Since then Moslems in Kashmir have complained bitterly that all the best government places go to Hindus. Last autumn British troops saved his throne when the Mohammedans revolted. Reports last week said that 5,000 Hindus and Moslems have been killed in skirmishes since then. As fresh troops were being rushed across the Himalayas to save his throne again, Sir Hari suddenly...
...Presently, by royal command. Miss Negri is married to the King while her guardsman is jailed for failing to salute her. The King's marriage causes his subjects to denounce him as a buffoon, but they do not become really incensed until the christening of the heir to the throne, a ceremony for which the Prime Minister tries to supply the proper air of spontaneous festivity by hiring all the professional mourners in the city to cheer as the King goes by. At this point, the picture suddenly descends to sorry melodrama. The jolly little king is murdered...
...been confided to the care of Richard Penn who on Sept. 1 presented it to Lord Dartmouth, Secretary of State for the Colonies. Lord Dartmouth presumably made an unsuccessful effort to show it to the King. He reported: "As his majesty did not receive it [the petition] on the throne, no answer will be given." What Edmund Burke later described as "a very decent and manly petition from the Congress" then found its way into the care of William, 2nd Earl Fitzwilliam, who scribbled on its back, "Petition of American Congress to the King" and let it rest at Milton...