Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will go on. After a tense 24 hours it was decided that salary cuts would keep the doors open, at least for this summer's tourists. The music-wise were never seriously alarmed. Their attention was focused more on the Vienna opera, a real throne of music, which was also threatened with suspension...
...King George in the Throne Room of Buckingham Palace invested 19 strapping miners with the King Edward medal for working nine dangerous hours to save a miner comrade...
...years of revolution. The world made heroic gestures which were to crumple at the touch of steel, but the story of Rome and of Vienna, of Budapest, and Paris, was written too well to be obliterated under the returning tide of military autocracy. A Hapsburg was still on the throne of his conglomerate empire, a Bourbon swaggered in Naples, and a saddened Pope told his beads once again in the Vatican, but despotism had had its day and the foundations of the old order rocked beneath the blare of its victorious trumpets. A new Napoleon had risen from the bloody...
Enthroned in the white and gold Throne Room of Buckingham Palace, facing the Primate of England* and the Primate of All England† and facing an immense conclave of British bishops and clergy, His Majesty King George exclaimed in ringing tones last week...
...definitely endear this. Nevertheless, it is considered likely that the Pope's first visit in Rome will be with some such person as Prince Marco Antonio Colonna, whose family, as result of an ancient squabble, still takes turns with the Orsini at supplying a Prince Assistant to the Pontifical Throne, an honorary post which permits wearing fancy uniforms...