Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From his unofficial throne atop the bootblack stand in the New York County Courthouse, Tammany Sachem George Washington Plunkitt (1842-1924) used to extol the virtues of Tammany Hall. He gloried in the durability of the city machine that went on "flourishin' forever, like fine old oaks. Say, that's the first poetry I ever worked off. Ain't it great...
...sister's permission to marry. The Queen, as head of a church that does not recognize divorce, would find that permission all but impossible to grant in the case of divorced Group Captain Townsend. But though now free and 25, Margaret, as an heir to the throne, must still reckon with objections from Parliament, where the bishops in Lords and the powerful Nonconformist backbenchers in Commons could make trouble. To get around this, Margaret would probably have to trade her right of succession to the throne for marriage with the man of her choice...
Over the Border. Palace lawyers, drawing on the useful precedent in the abdication of Margaret's uncle, Edward VIII, have worked it out that if she renounced her rights of succession to the throne (she is third, after Prince Charles and Princess Anne). Parliament could have no further grounds for objecting to the marriage, since she would then be acting as a private person. They have recommended that if Margaret plans to go through with it, the Queen should send a message to Parliament-after Parliament meets again in October-apprising Lords and Commons of her sister...
Horn bugles sounded shrilly as the police battered at the main gate, and from the walls archers and men with slingshots attacked them with arrows and stones. Bursting into the courtyard of the math, they found Pagala Baba, dressed in animal skins, sitting on a lotus-shaped throne, waving a piece of red cloth and shouting, "Let blood flow!" Sadhus armed with spears, tridents and heavy two-handed swords forced the police back, leaving one cop and two sadhns dead...
...full-dress rehearsal of last week's graduation parade at Sandhurst's Royal Military College, the hot-rodding Duke of Kent, 19, seventh in line to Britain's throne, marched smartly and looked none the worse for the recent wear and tear of his fourth car smashup in 13 months (Kent was at the controls in three of the crashes). After graduation (and orders to duty with the Royal Scots Grays), the Duke blushingly denied that his cousin, Queen Elizabeth II, had ordered him henceforth to do his landborne flying only with an experienced copilot...