Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prince Carol, abdicated heir to the Rumanian throne, asked his onetime wife, Princess Helen, how she would feel if he returned home. Said she: "I have no objection...
...Leiber takes great pains by his asides and gestures to convey that he has but one thought in mind and that is to set himself safely on the throne at all costs. In his wooing of Lady Anne, widow of Edward, Prince of Wales, whose blood is scarcely dry on his sword, Gloster presents his suit with all of the cunning of a snake charming its prospective prey. The lady assents, and as she departs Mr. Leiber gives a very emphatic sneer and a disparaging remark on the constancy of women. All through the play he uses...
Mister Edison sits on a throne...
Student riots, shouts of "Death to the King!" and much waving of big red flags by obscure persons in Madrid last week, disturbed all Spain; but if the Throne was tottering both King Alfonso and the members of his Cabinet wore in becoming Spanish fashion an air of jaunty confidence...
...Apple Cart. In the later years of his life George Bernard Shaw, his spirit and eloquence unimpaired, has relinquished Socialism and the kindred shibboleths of his younger days to make obeisance before his King and, by implication, every wise, considerate monarch who ever occupied a throne. The hero of the first Shavian drama in six years is Magnus, an English ruler of the future. Skyscrapers now loom above London; the betasselled chambers of Buckingham Palace have been renovated in the glass-and-metal fashions of the modernists; poverty has been eliminated, and all England is a jerry-built, bourgeois panorama...