Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young King Hussein of Jordan, who had the guts to rear up on his hind legs and smash his enemies, saving his country and his throne. Courage is one of the most needed attributes in the world today...
Solomon's Throne. Barzilai was delighted. But when his wife grew worse instead of better, he went around to Rabbi Barti again. What he heard this time was even more wonderful. "I have been told by the angels," said the rabbi, "that you are the Messiah, and once this is established you will be able to help your wife yourself." To prove that he was not lying, Barti took an oath on the Torah that all he had said was true...
...receipt. It would be returned on Judgment Day, he said. And so it went for four years-another $1,000 for his royal robes, a deposit of $2,500 on a gift of $5,000 "for the Lord himself," still more for a parcel containing King Solomon's throne from Elijah's cave on Mt. Carmel. Barzilai could not resist taking a peek and was chagrined to find nothing but stones. Naturally, said Barti, the angels had changed the throne into stones because the package was opened without permission...
...trial in Tel Aviv's district court, Rabbi Barti conducted his own defense. Barzilai's story was a pack of lies, he implied. "How could you believe," he asked Barzilai, "that for so paltry a sum as $5,000 you could buy King Solomon's throne, his raiment and the treasure dating back to the days of creation-especially as my magic hadn't even helped your wife?" Answered Barzilai: "I believed because you swore on the Bible, and I am a simple...
Portugal's Dictator Oliveira Salazar tolerates the presence of a royal pretender to the Portuguese throne: Dom Duarte Nuno, 50, a recent settler in Lisbon, and the twig upon a branch of Portugal's royal family tree. Last week Dom Duarte got some royal competition. Portugal's anti-Nuno monarchist faction presented a petition in Rome to well-preserved Princess Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg Braganga. 50, an illegitimate child of Portugal's assassinated (in 1908) King Carlos I, to start pretending. A pro-Maria spokesman gave short shrift to Dom Duarte: "That impostor must never...