Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their M.P.'s last week, one M.P. receiving 400 denunciations of The Deal. But the most Prime Minister Baldwin actually suffered was a division on the King's Speech, which is usually adopted by the House of Commons without a vote as a courtesy to the Throne. When the division was taken there were 281 votes for His Majesty's Government and 139 against. In effect this was a House of Commons vote of confidence on dismembering Ethiopia...
...Throne, and at Dessye meanwhile His Majesty was the guest of Nebraska, California and Ohio Seventh Day Adventists who are firmly resolved that Ethiopia shall not yield. With their little organ pealing Rock of Ages, followed by What A Friend We Have In Jesus, the Emperor displayed unwavering courage, flayed The Deal to correspondents, and assented when his Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Everett Andrew Colson, a native of Warren, Me., advised from Addis Ababa that Ethiopia should not take upon herself the onus of rejecting the Franco-British proposal but should pass the buck to the League of Nations...
First Lady. Jane Cowl as a Washington woman-behind-the-throne, with brisk dialog by George S. Kaufman & Katharine Dayton. Jumbo. Paul Whiteman, Jimmy Durante, donkeys, deer and "dream women" in Billy Rose's new Hippodrome show. The Taming of the Shrew. Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne add new dimensions to a pleasant comedy by William Shakespeare. Winterset. Maxwrell Anderson's verse tragedy of a city's lower depths...
...Hughes arrived to visit them they had to give up their own beds and find others at the back of the house. Later they rented the palatial Hôtel d'Assche which had been the home of King Albert and Queen Elisabeth before their elevation to the throne. There old Cardinal Mercier used to drop in to play with the five Phillips children and there the King & Queen called often. Crown Prince (now King) Leopold attended all their better parties, and the Socialist leader Emile Vandervelde went there to discuss with his friend Phillips the social problems...
...Disused but in good repair at Vatican City is the world's most elaborate private train. An entire car is devoted to the papal chamber and throne room, with four lifesize figures of angels outside the big arched windows. By an ingenious mechanism the Throne can be caused to upend and vanish into the wall, a superb berth appearing in its place covered by a white & gold canopy. So that six Cardinals can celebrate Mass at once en route, the Papal Train has six altars sumptuously provided with cruets of water and sacrificial wine, tabernacles, lace altar cloths, candlesticks...