Word: thrones
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pope's red motor car carried him, seated in his gilded, damask-covered motor throne, from the Vatican Palace, over the graveled roads of the Vatican gardens to the small, redbrick, garden-surrounded broadcasting station...
Prohibition, lodged in the Constitution, as a knife in the back of the A. E. F. . . . I say to my fellow members of the American Legion that you cannot salute your flag with a clear conscience until Al Capone is knocked off the throne erected by the Anti-Saloon League. I ... refuse to pay homage to this Chicago monarch. He has neither money enough nor enough lead to make me change my mind. By this plurality of one vote, I make myself the leader opposing the existing gunman autocracy in the United States. . . . [The Anti-Saloon League attempts to justify...
After scrutinizing the famed "Peacock Throne," the experts informed His Majesty that some substitution of paste jewels had been made by the weak, do-nothing former Royal House of Persia which he overthrew in 1925. "Then, gentlemen," cried the new Shah, dynamic, dramatic, "you must buy me other jewels!" What is left genuine of the Peacock Throne today may be "conservatively valued," according to the experts, thus: Headpiece $10,000,000 Arms & Legs 25,000,000 Tailpiece...
...still a monarchist," boomed Count de Romanones, "but I hold that the best way out of Spain's present political deadlock lies through the abdication of King Alfonso and the elevation to the Throne of another member of the dynasty...
...would remember me for ever, but I could not utter a word; only tears, bitter tears and comfortless, rolled down my cheeks. Thus I said good-bye to Russia." When rumors that Marie intended to apply for U. S. citizenship lately reached Grand Duke Cyril, pretender to the Russian throne, he threatened to revoke her title and rights. The rumor is neither confirmed nor denied. Marie will tour the U. S., lecture, but will keep her job with Bergdorf-Goodman. She started to write her book in English, got excited, changed to French, got more excited, went on in Russian...