Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driving full speed toward a cop and slamming on the brakes just in time). Salaheddine's arrest was a sign that the end was near. Before the week was out the 76-year-old Bey, whose family has ruled Tunisia for 250 years, was unceremoniously toppled from his throne, and the throne itself (both as an institution and a piece of furniture) was tossed on the scrap heap of history...
...Trouble. The descendants of a Greek renegade first placed on the throne by the Turkish masters of the Ottoman Empire, the Husseinite Beys of Tunis became in later years little more than abject puppets of French colonial rule. With personal prerogatives rivaling those of true oriental potentates and on a half-million-dollar-a-year allowance (almost ten times what France pays its own President), the Beys had only to pile up their wealth and stay out of trouble. Since dynastic law provided that each Bey should be succeeded by the eldest male relative on his father's side...
...Office. During the early years of insurgent Tunisian nationalism, El Amin refused to put his royal seal on a few French decrees. The irritated French ringed his palace with soldiers to put him back in line. The Bey's gesture was enough to keep him on the throne for a while after Tunisia got its independence. But Tunisia's modern-minded new Premier, Habib Bourguiba, 54, was obviously not going to tolerate the antique dynasty for long. Gradually the Premier cut down on the royal prerogatives. Two weeks ago, Bourguiba announced in a weekly broadcast: "The hour...
...production is a cast of exceptionally high-quality voices which is agreeably suited to comic opera. Unfortunately, the acting is not always so successful, at least it is not up to the calibre of the singing. In the title roles of the two primi gondolieri and pretenders to the throne of Barataria, Bruce Macdonald and George Brown both sing remarkably well and elicit a great deal of satire from their acting. Neither of the pair strikes one as of the gondoliering or the regal type, but this only serves to heighten the humor...
...throne room at Columbia Pictures resounded with the whoosh of an outsized riding crop swung in anger. Scepter in hand, striding before two rows of Oscars at stiff attention behind his vast desk, Columbia's stubby and balding Boss Harry Cohn fumed with the king-sized wrath of the last Hollywood despot who still runs the studio he built. The year was 1953, the object of his wrath Rita Hayworth, Columbia's reigning love goddess; Rita had flounced out and left the studio with a costly stack of properties bought just for her. Before Cohn's desk...