Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Lieut. Pera Zivkovitch was the young officer who unlocked a back door in the palace of his Sovereigns, King Alexander Obrenovitch & Queen Draga, and let in the assassins who killed them in their sleep, thus allowing King Peter I, Alexander's father, to ascend the throne...
...23rd time since King Manoel was driven from his throne in 1910, revolution flared. The igniting spark was the removal from office of Minister of War Col. Schiappa de Azevedo. who had refused to sign deportation orders against the army officers accused of participating in the last Portuguese revolution, the ruckus in April on the island of Madeira (TIME, May 11). Immediately two raggle taggle bands of soldiers, officers, civilians rushed the third artillery in Lisbon garrison and Sao Jorge fortress on the heights above the city, seized cannon and machine guns, pasted up proclamations defying the Government, dug themselves...
...long before Peter Pentecost found that he was indeed no churl. He was the hidden son of the dead Duke of Buckingham whom King Harry had swept aside on his way to the throne. Peter suddenly found himself a man with a destiny. A group of ambitious, discontented nobles wanted to help him overthrow King Harry. Through his guardian, Brother Tobias, the Church also beckoned his aid. But the faction which turned out to be his unswerving support were the furtive, secret folk who had been driven to the greenwood by oppression...
Once Peter had King Harry alone and at his mercy in the forest, but he played his advantage badly, almost swung for it. He lost his chance at the throne and he lost the beauteous Sabine Beauforest. In so doing he gained his soul, a kingdom in the greenwood, and anonymity...
...benevolent old gentleman in a long white false beard, sat one night last week in a small, cramped heaven above the stage in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. Surrounded by cloudlike forms, he occupied a throne in front of a large yellow sunflower, gazed majestically down at Job and his family & friends and Satan. He gazed also at the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra and a small audience of dance lovers. It was the first of the Stadium's three nights with the Denishawn Dancers, and the first U. S. performance of Job: A Masque for Dancing, with music...