Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gallon and so has been run but 300 miles by His Exalted Highness during its career of 26 years in Hyderabad. While putting on the streamlined fenders, Hyderabad artisans were instructed to build the centre of the body up much higher last week into a sort of throne topped by a gilt dome. In this way the Rolls was made practically as good for a parade as an elephant & howdah...
...four regiments of infantry, a detachment of native cavalry gaily caparisoned, two batteries of artillery, a regiment of Arabs and the personal bodyguard of His Exalted Highness who employs for this purpose Sidis from Africa. Instead of cheering the populace prayed and the Nizam of Hyderabad on his Rolls Throne wore not a single ornament or diadem and was not in uniform. As on other days (see cut, p. 20) His Exalted Highness wore an ordinary suit and simple turban...
...been pointed out by the Home Secretary-merely of a purely automatic nature not requiring any maturity of judgment at all but merely the ability to write one's name in a fairly legible hand, then I should imagine that even the young heir to the throne just now, if she has attained ordinary educational advancement, is capable of this particular act." Such gentle fun sped the Regency Bill along to pass the House overwhelmingly 307 to 1, with Mr. Maxton not voting because he acted as a teller...
...Murad's legitimate heir put his 19 brothers to death, sewed his father's seven pregnant concubines in sacks and threw them into the sea. This violence was deprecated, and thereafter the heirs-potential were merely locked up for life. Some of these prisoners succeeded to the throne after a lifetime, "when they had all but lost the power of speech, and their minds and bodies were like vegetables." But now, says Penzer, the days of the harem are over. (Only one extant: in Mecca.) When Abd ul-Hamid's big family was broken up, most...
...After two and a half years of blundering war, England tired of its tight-lipped professionals, put Lloyd George, an intelligent amateur, in charge. Tsar Nicholas renounced his throne while excited soldiers in St. Petersburg "swore eternal loyalty to something that they could not catch quite distinctly." Lenin arrived in Russia, half-expecting arrest, to find an uproarious reception. When his Bolsheviks had driven out Kerensky, "the poetry of revolution had been defeated by its prose...