Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...served Communism and his country-as policeman and purger, businessman and bureaucrat, Defense Minister and Premier. Yet, until six months ago, he has made little more impact on the Western world than a splendidly caparisoned beefeater, opening and closing the door through which more ambitious men approached the Soviet throne room...
...London's traffic snarl. But inside the House of Lords, ancient ceremony took over. Resplendent in white net and diamanté, the imperial crown gleaming on her head and heavy purple robes sweeping back from her shoulders, the young Queen read the Speech from the Throne, written for her by "my government," to an assemblage glittering with peers' coronets and robes, the jewels and silks of their wives. The M.P.s, drab in black jackets and business suits, stood respectfully-there are no seats for them in the House of Lords...
...tries to play Democratic politics (Charles, of course, is a Republican) and daydreams about being an important and witty Power behind some great man's throne. She is at her most gallant and most futile in trying, while having her hair trimmed, to talk her college-age daughter out of an unsuitable attachment: "Time is running out so move in a little faster. Tell her I am so very fond of Bowie. Linda responds, Yes, he certainly can charm the birds off the trees. I go on and say, Of course you have so much to offer, dear. Linda...
...flanking his car, Bourguiba progressed through a seething sea of happy admirers as strangely mixed as Tunisia itself. Vespa motor-scooters, ridden by sport-shirted youths, skittered among primitive horsemen in burnooses; bare-foot peasant boys dodged fat businessmen in Citroëns and Fords. In the blue-tiled throne room of the palace, old (73) Bey Sidi Mohammed el Amin, hereditary ruler of Tunisia, rose majestically from his place to embrace and kiss Bourguiba, saying softly: "This is a happy day. Joy has replaced suffering." Tears in his eyes, Bourguiba echoed: "A blessed...
Most plausible pretender to the throne of Shakespeare, on grounds of genius and style, is Marlowe. His claims have not been pressed, except in regard to Shakespeare's earliest work, for the reason that he died before most of Shakespeare's plays were written. Anti-Shakespearean students are prepared to believe almost anything, but none of them has ever suggested that Marlowe went on writing after he was dead. Heaven only knows why. Calvin Hoffman, a reporter, drama critic, Shakespearean scholar, is the first man to try to grasp this nettle firmly...