Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between his fingers. Under the Senate rules, he votes only to break a tie. He is not permitted to join in legislative debate or make any kind of speech. His utterances are confined to cut & dried parliamentary rulings which a Senate majority can overturn at will. On his Senate throne he is a glorified policeman, keeping peace in the chamber but powerless to influence any of its deliberations...
Just before he sailed back to Britain, still closely guarded, Patrick said in a message to Irishmen: "Everyone who knows Irishmen likes them. They like a joke and are always ready for a bit of fun. Your attachment to the Throne is proverbial and I am delighted to have this opportunity of seeing it myself on your own soil...
...Sinaia Palace, where the new Rumanian Cabinet received their seals and swore fealty to King Carol last week, Premier Maniu seemed to end his personal feud with the scapegrace monarch in these ringing words: "We will work to consolidate the Throne! We will erect a protecting wall about...
...Germany's monarchist "League of the Upright," meeting in Berlin to urge his recall to the throne. Wilhelm Hohenzollern sent the following words of Jesus Christ: "Without me ye can do nothing...
William Danforth, lately stopped from the Mikado's throne, strode about in the mock-gloom of a black cape and hat, hissing patter-songs between his teeth, or bellowing out a sinister line a quartertone flat, to make your blood run cold...