Word: throned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which his predecessor went mad.* His power in matters of faith, order and polity is far more limited than that of the Pope; yet he is looked upon as "Elder Brother" by the churches of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia,. Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria, ATHENAGORAS I On a wooden throne, a nylon ruler...
...wrote an account of the Life of Mr. Savage in 1744. Savage provided Johnson with his best study of character--a great arrogant pride, amasing personal charm, and yet both equalized by a knack of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. When George II took the throne in 1727, Savage wrote a poem eulogizing him, but typically made the mistake of praising George I whom George II hated. This was the pattern for most of his mistakes, for diplomatically he was a blockhead. Pope seemed to fascinate him, and together they attacked the men who had once been...
...trooped to Eleusis, Greece, last summer to see one of the most litigious excavations of recent years. Archaeologist George E. Mylonas reported he had actually found the grave of Prince Polynecices and his five friends who had been killed, according to Greek mythology, in the attempt to capture the throne of Thebes from Polynecices's brother. The big controversy arose when Mylonas mentioned he had discovered the graves from directions written by the ancient geographer Pausanias who lived about 1,700 years after Polynecices...
...played by Brando with an undercurrent of sensual violence, the obscurity is increased by the sole episode which the film adds to the play--a scene in which Antony stares almost mockingly at a bust of Caesar and then seats himself in a chair as though it were a throne. In the case of Caesar, Shakespeare's portrait is curiously ambiguous--on the one hand noble, on the other blustering and vain. Calhern's interpretation emphasizes the latter qualities and even goes beyond them. Ineffectual and exuding senility, his Caesar is the one lamentable portrayal in the film...
Married. Austria's tall (6 ft. 2 in.), exiled Archduke Robert of Habsburg, 38, second in line to the nonexistent Habsburg throne; and stately (6 ft.) Princess Margherita of Italy's royal house of Savoia-Aosta, 23, niece of Italy's ex-King Umberto, in Bourg-en-Bresse, France...