Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Properties: the King-Emperor's spectacles (in his breast pocket), his speech (borne by his private secretary Baron Stamford-ham), his Throne (portable), the Chair (portable), and the Round Table consisting of two U-shaped tables, one within the other, both facing the Throne, seating together 86 delegates...
...Emperor of India (Entering accompanied by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, taking his stance in front of the gilded Throne, glancing deliberately about while the assemblage bowed, dipping for his spectacles and putting them on, receiving his manuscript speech from Lord Stamfordham, facing his special gold & silver microphone, holding up his speech with hands that trembled slightly...
...George V stepped away from the microphone and left the hall, four minions grasped the Throne, shoved it back against the wall, replaced it by the Chair...
...over England for the 325th time, stalwart citizens burned effigies of Guy Fawkes last week. Mr. Fawkes, 325 years ago, was employed by some Roman Catholics to ignite a quantity of gunpowder secreted in the cellar of the Houses of Parliament directly under the Throne of His Most Protestant Majesty James...
Reporters learned last week that the ceremony had been in Buckingham Palace at the express desire of Grandpapa George V. His Majesty busied himself considerably with the royal babe last week. Because British laws of succession do not definitely state that succession to the throne goes to the elder of two sisters as it does in the case of sons, editors have written many a paragraph on the possibility that little Princess Margaret Rose might have equal rights with her elder sister, the much publicized Princess Elizabeth, the King's favorite grandchild. King George ended this discussion last week...