Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country may be "little" in comparison to yours, but he rules six times as many subjects as you have subscribers. . . . He himself may be "little" compared with the giant of Sweden, or the barrel-like Göring, but so is the average man, on or off the throne. He has been called "fairly tall" by those who know...
...large group of youngsters who had been training with diligence and determination during her reign, five little pretenders-to-the-throne met last week at Ardmore, Pa. to vie for her crown. On the navy-blue ice of the Philadelphia Skating Club's elegant new rink, the five little ladies, all under 21, traced out their prescribed school figures (first half of the program) with such hairline accuracy that the five solemn judges almost required the services of a Philadelphia lawyer to decide which performance was the best...
...whereas he was really slight, with thin lips, jet black hair, keen eyes, and a perpetually courteous air. Like Freidrich Nietzche, whom he most resembles in historical significance, he was an unhappy man. He seemed never to attain his ends, never to be near enough the throne to wield the sceptre, never able to find a champion for his cause. Patriotism devoured him, yet America had her Sam Adams whose name is far from disrepute...
...Chancellors had laid the larger issue of merging Austria with Germany on the shelf to make a deal on lesser but vital points. It was said that Dr. Schuschnigg, an ardent Monarchist, had agreed to do nothing to better the chances of Archduke Otto to :obtain the Austrian Throne, while Herr Hitler agreed to force the Austrian Nazis again to curb their recently much increased activities (TIME, Feb. 7). On this point Dr. Schuschnigg reputedly showed that he has documentary proofs of German financing and instigation of plots against his Government by Austrian Nazis recently arrested. In return...
...would vex many solid Netherlanders should they ever find themselves with a Queen having such a name as Beatrix, and Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina was understood to have made last week this firm stipulation: should Princess Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard ever come to the throne it will be as "Queen Wilhelmina...