Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband was dissatisfied with her because she had borne him no son. Said she: "We are very happy with what we have [two daughters. Shadara, 5, and Sita, 1, with their father in Cairo]. My husband has a son by a former marriage who is now on the throne of Indore." The circle of red powder on her forehead was not a caste mark, the Maharani explained, "but an auspicious sign which one may or may not wear without violating ethics." Because she and her husband had visited India only twice since their marriage, spending practically all of their time...
...throne of Italy immediately after the war felt the republican quakes that ran through Europe, but its foundations were renewed and strengthened when a statesman of fortune marched on Rome and assumed command of the country. Since Mussolini stepped out of the wings into the bald light of European politics Italy's King has been a handsome figure for his people to revere--for the opportunity is occasionally given them. But now they have become dissatisfied with just a King, they want an Emperor, a Holy Roman Emperor...
...became queen. Denounced as an intriguer for Germany during the War, she was driven from Greece with her husband in 1917. A year later when Constantine was reported near death from an old wound, rumor spread that she had stabbed him. In 1920 King Constantine was restored to his throne. Two years later she again fled with him to Italy. There she watched him die. while her son. King George II, ruled Greece for a year before he too was dethroned. The rest of her life, until a few months before she died, was spent in a villa in Florence...
...cafes of Pest, where even the waiters wear monocles, race-proud Magyars have hatched many a dark plot to put young Archduke Otto on the vacant throne in Buda across the Danube. But Archduke Otto is no Magyar; he is a Habsburg. To find a more appropriate ruler for his people was the self-appointed mission of a young Magyar fencing-master named Toth. Like the Finns, Esthonians, Turks and Tartars, the Magyars are part Asiatic, are believed by some to be re- lated to the Japanese. Fencing-Master Toth chose for his king the brother of Emperor Hirohito...
...Manhattan. Married, John A. Roebling, 68, only son of the late great Engineer Washington Augustus Roebling (Brooklyn Bridge); and one Helen Price, 41; at Rochester, N. Y. Seeking Divorce, Nadjeda de Braganza Dorozynski, daughter of Princess Anita Stewart Miguel de Braganza, Manhattan socialite, and the late pretender to the throne of Portugal; from one Vadim Dorozynski, son of a sometime Russian naval officer; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: incompatibility. Sued. William Benson Storey, president of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Ry., and his wife Laura; by Rev. Ulysses Grant Warren, of Corning, N. Y., for $200,000. Charge: alienation of the affections...