Word: throned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitter whistling wind on the plains outside Hsinking, owl-eyed Henry Pu Yi announced to his ancestors on March 1 that he was about to become Emperor Kang Teh of Manchukuo. Later that day he buttoned himself into a Field Marshal's uniform and ascended his throne. Japan, which was the first and, so far as the world knew until last week, the last power to recognize his puppet government (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932), sent official congratulations. The League of Nations did not dare punish Japan directly for its invasion of Manchuria, but on the strength of the Lytton...
...successfully catching the gaudy brilliance of the "nouveau riche" Russia that was trying to imitate the grandeur of contemporary Europe. Elizabeth Bergner, as has oft been repeated, does a splendid job to produce an absorbing Catherine; and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. also capably handles the Mad Czar Peter, whose throne Catherine usurped because of his unfitness to rule...
...Count Philippe d'Arschot. Escorted by Ambassador May and members of his staff, they had come to carry out an ancient rite, to which Belgium, of all nations, now alone adheres. Their sole mission was to inform the President in person that Leopold III now sits on the throne of Belgium...
Last week he reentered and was introduced by Ambassador May to the new White House occupant. Then & there he told the President that, beyond any doubt, Leopold III now sits on the Belgian throne...
Pageant King Frank Barton, ex-Culver, ex-Princeton, ex-president of the Cotton Exchange, rose with some misgivings from his gaudy throne atop a stack of cotton bales. "Frank Barton's got on tights!" the crowd sniggered. "Bet he's cool all right. Now he helpin' the Queen off the boat." Across an excited margin of sloppy river water stepped Queen Octavia Evans. "Ain't she pretty? Niece of Boss Eddie Crump's right hand man. She's supposed to be the Queen of Egypt. That's Gretta Garbo's own dress...