Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually born on December 14, and called Albert (Bertie to his family), the present King of England became George when he reached the throne (TIME, Dec. 21, 1936) and His Majesty's official birthday was changed to June 9. when...
...Scottish Children's Theatre-which consists of six coy adults who recite Mother Goose rhymes in costume. No. 1 guest moppet was H. R. H. Prince Edward, two-year-old son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent and 5th in line of succession to the throne...
This year's Triangle show is set in Restoration England. Vaporous Charles II, called to the throne from his nightshirt, wants to purchase the Isle of Blight, a French channel patch. As buying agents he sends the Duke of Clarendon, a villain with designs on the King's throne, and the Countess of Sessex, a villainess with designs on the King's person. The plots of Triangle shows rarely jell, they coagulate. This one is no exception. Stopfidget, a scurrilous rakehell who has been exiled to Blight, flies back to England with his hungry balloonist friend, Sweazle...
Weeks before in the Walt Disney offices in far Hollywood, Ted H. Osborne had conceived a Mickey Mouse comic strip episode in which a Duke Varlott plots to gain the mythical throne of Medioka from his under-age nephew, King Michael. The Mickey Mouse strip is distributed by Hearst King Features Syndicate, one of whose clients is the Belgrade Politika. First Regent of Yugoslavia today is Prince Paul, first cousin once removed of King Peter, a minor, an analogy to the Mickey Mouse comic which few foreign papers failed to draw when fortnight ago Mickey Mouse was suppressed from Politika...
...successor chosen, one Ch'osgyi-nyima. son of a woodcutter in a remote Tibetan village. In the great monastery of Tashilhunpo for 13 years Lamas trained him in the intricacies of Lamaist ritual. At 18 this "Buddha of Boundless Light" was installed on his yellow satin throne, presumably for the rest of his days to guide the souls of Tibetans, while the Dalai Lama, an older and wilier man, conducted its temporal affairs. The ''Buddha of Mercy" proved to be more sinister than merciful. From his intrigues the Panchen Lama fled in 1924, leaving him in full...