Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tolerance, he died with a scrap of verse in his pocket which urged judges and churchmen to guard against "such as do a toleration hatch." The galleries also included portraits of Edward Rawson who rode clattering through High Street, Boston, to announce the accession of James II to the Throne of England, the Rev. John Davenport, friend of Cotton Mather, famed for his "ejaculatory prayers" and the Rev. Joint Bailey who died seeing his Savior and murmuring to his wife, "Oh, what shall I say, He is altogether lovely...
...constructed in spite of Britain and France by Moslems of Turkey, Persia, Irak, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Transjordania and Egypt. Such at least is Dr. Rushdi's dream. And last week the King of Kings had left Persia for the first time since he seized the Peacock Throne in 1925 to discuss both Moslem dreams and realities with his Turkish neighbors...
...house of Habsburg-Lorraine last fortnight sent a stalking horse back into the Austrian Republic which had banned all Habsburg-Lorraines who had not renounced their claims to the throne. A tall, white-chinned man of 71 with the Habsburg horse face, he stepped off the train from Switzerland at Vienna's West Station and looked into the faces of a notable company: the Minister of War. Prince Alois von Schonburg-Hartenstein (''Our venerated and beloved Field Marshal!"); the son of Archduke Franz Ferdinand whose assassination detonated the War; the heads of the great houses of Mens...
...48th birthday, the rumor spread insistently across Europe that at last Alfonso, still His Most Catholic Majesty to monarchists, was ready to ask Pope Pius XI for an annulment of his marriage to Victoria Eugenie. A twin rumor was that Alfonso proposed to renounce his rights to the Spanish throne in favor of his third son Prince Juan, now a cadet in the British Navy. Last week newshawks found a few of the Bourbon's "friends" who gravely agreed that "there is a foundation for the rumors." Vatican officials pointed out that the Pope grants an annulment only...
Engaged. Princess Marie-Antoinette Michelle Raphaelle Gabrielle Adélaide Françoise Xavière Josèphe Expédite Grégoire de Braganza, 31, daughter of the late Duke Miguel de Braganza, pretender to the throne of Portugal; and Ashley Chanler, son of the late William Astor Chanler...