Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Imperial Majesty Reza Shah was selected as Ruler and ascended the throne by the unanimous will of the nation...
With his voluntary abdication from a mythical throne in Central Europe, Arliss is forced with either remaining faithful to his queen or returning to the wife he left in order to be king. Off hand, it looks like a set-up for the girl of his youth, but she's changed, you see, and then with no place to worry about, the queen begins to develop a new personality. It's an interesting problem in human nature to which Arliss provides the most satisfactory kind of solution...
Plump and pink Queen Wilhelmina, whose nose grew red as she went sleigh-riding in Switzerland last week, pronounced a solemn Speech from the Throne before she left The Hague. Mindful of her Dutch East Indies, in which live 60,000,000 of Her Majesty's 69,000,000 subjects, she gave them a new and more dignified name: Netherlands India...
...ruler of Manchukuo, wondered how soon he would be returned to his old home. A faction in the Japanese Supreme War Council was known to be waiting only for spring and the thawing of the roads to driv.e straight to Peiping and set Henry Pu Yi back on a throne in the Forbidden City...
Somewhere in its dazzling square mile of yellow-tiled buildings, Henry Pu Yi was born, son of the favorite grandnephew of the ancient Dowager Empress who made him heir to the Dragon throne of the "Great Pure" dynasty and all its treasures. In its interminable throne halls, temples, palaces, marble courts and concubines' quarters the Boy Emperor lived. Except for U. S. and European soldiers who looted it during the Boxer Rebellion, not 20 white men in the world had set foot in that forbidden preserve until the fall of the Empire in 1911. Until 1911, it contained...