Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moscow and whom Marshal Chiang cast out after he had prepared Chiang's conquest. Last week Mr. Chen plastered all Canton (fourth largest Chinese city) with propaganda posters of Soviet type ridiculing President Chiang. The wasp-waisted, bandy-legged little President was shown perched ludicrously oh the Manchu Throne, bedight as Emperor of China. This cartoon, it was hoped, would "inflame the people...
...throng of the faithful assembled last week at the Vatican for the occasion was handed another long document, an official resume of Quadragesima Anno, Pius XI's encyclical on the social and industrial world of today, amplifying and interpreting Leo XIII's. Finally, a throne and microphone of gold and silver were set up in the Courtyard of St. Damascus and the Pope came forth in person to address the workers and employers of the world...
Alfonso's third move was to let it be known?unofficially?that he would give up his own rights to the throne, not in favor of his easy bleeding firstborn, the Prince of the Asturias, nor in favor of his deaf-mute second son Don Jaime, but in favor of his third son, 17-year-old Don Juan Carlos, a cadet last week in the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, Devonshire...
...being a student of history. I know that the jester always pays, for the king inevitably kicks him downstairs. The most famous court clowns eventually are beheaded. But what happens to the monarch then? In nearly every case, kicking the jester has presaged the fall of the throne. . . . Patriotism is the greatest insanity the world has ever suffered. I've been all over Europe in the past few months. Patriotism is rampant everywhere, and what is going to be the result? Another war! I hope they send the old men to the front next time, for they...
...program is as follows: Mighty Lord from Christmas Oratorio of Bach Grant Us To Do With Zeal Bach Creator Alme Siderum Plain Song Jesu Dulcis Vittoria Miserere Allegri Glory and Worship Purcell Sacerdotes Domini Byrd Jerusalem Parry Credo Gretchaninoff Adoramus Te Palestrina Then Round About the Starry Throne Handel...