Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freedom Station opened up in the early morning, broadcast as a straight news bulletin that the Allies had just agreed to an 18-day armistice, that the "Chamberlain-Churchill Cabinet" had resigned, that King George VI had abdicated and that the Duke of Windsor was back on the throne of Great Britain...
...HUNDREDTH YEAR-Philip Guedalla-Doubleday, Doran ($3). The fateful year of 1936 (hundredth since Victoria's accession), when Hitler militarized the Rhineland, Italy conquered Abyssinia, Franco started the Spanish Civil War, Roosevelt was reflected and Edward Windsor left the throne of England, presented in smooth, newsreel episodes by the smooth author of The Hundred Years (TIME...
...anti-Axis Vox Populi has backing in high places. The Royal Family is popularly supposed to have looked with misgivings on the Axis. As the Axis became more unpopular, the Throne gained in popularity until there became noticeable a resurgence of monarchist feeling in Italy. When "Viva Il Duce" is now painted on the walls, the words "Viva Il Re!" are more than likely to be written beside...
Next year the Duke was assigned to go to Australia and open its new Parliament with a Speech from the Throne, for him a terrible ordeal. "Well, here goes," York was heard to say to his wife as, gritting his teeth, he arose to speak. "I know you can do it," she replied firmly and Australians were struck by the way in which the Duchess followed every word, nodding and smiling encouragement right through to the Duke's successful close which brought a torrent of cheers...
...Edward of Wales. "She is one of us!" became what everyone said of Elizabeth, "the Smiling Duchess." Jocularly Wales would call his sister-in-law, the Duchess of York, "Queen Elizabeth" at times, and when King George V died many believed that Edward was resolved to avoid the Throne by abdicating then and there...