Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nephew Caligula's court, Claudius had only one desire: to keep out of the limelight, end his days plodding away at his secret historical writing. Furthermore, he was a convinced Republican and thought Emperors a bad thing for Rome. Because his only choice, however, was between the throne and an ignominious death, he sat down in the imperial seat with what grace he could muster. No fool, he soon saw his chance to bring Rome back to a state of grace in which she would once more be ready for Republican rule. He set himself to the task with...
...stout Republican purpose he saw that Rome was not yet ripe for it. To outsiders it looked as if Messalina's betrayal had turned him to the way of all Emperors: he married Agrippina, the wickedest woman in Rome, let her groom her son Nero for the throne, was apparently content to sit back and let the downward rush of history take its course. But there was method in his cynicism. Hoping that Rome would eventually tire of tyranny if it became too outrageous, he played King Log to the Roman frog-pond. He knew his successor Nero would...
...Russia's last ruling Romanov had not overreached himself by building a railway clear across Manchuria and down to Port Arthur, thus provoking the disastrous Russo-Japanese War, he might conceivably be on his throne today. From the shame of their defeat by yellow men, Russia's Imperial Government never entirely recovered but they did always manage to hold the steel ribbons into furthest Asia which they had built, the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week, to the shame of Soviet Russia, her rights over the C. E. R. were sold, or rather yielded to Manchukuo by Joseph Stalin...
...outbluff, much less outfight, a resolute adversary like Japan. With boundless insolence the yellow men, as they bought Stalin's railway for a song last week, actually egged their puppet Emperor of Manchukuo to extend official recognition to the Grand Duke Cyril, pretender to the Throne of Russia. One more insult to Stalin & Co. came when Emperor Kang Te announced that while all Red Russian employes of the C. E. R. are to be fired, all its White Russian employes may keep their jobs...
...Spain, midshipman in the British Navy; and Princess Marie Mercedes of Bourbon, 24, daughter of Prince Charles of Bourbon. Because his two older brothers, the ex-Prince of Asturias and the Infante Jaime, renounced their rights and married commoners, the Infante Juan is heir presumptive to the Spanish throne...