Word: thrones
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Foremost pretender to the French "throne" is the Duc de Guise, head of the house of Orleans, leader of the Royalist party. Like all pretenders, the Due de Guise is automatically and forever banished from the soil of the Republic. There is another pretender-"Louis XIX, head of the house of Bourbon"-whose claim has not seemed serious enough to warrant his exile but whose activities landed him last week in police court...
...Peacock Throne." The only object of Persian art at all familiar to average occidentals is the famed throne upon which sit Persia's Shahs. And this came from India, not Persia. Built in the reign of Shah Jahan (1627-58) in India's "golden age of architecture," it appeared in Persia after the sack of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1738. Designer is thought to have been Ustad Isa, reputed creator of the Taj Mahal. Before it was stripped of most of its appurtenances, silver steps led up to the throne proper, a peacock tail canopy overspread...
Then came the Speech from the Throne, which according to custom was written by Prime Minister MacDonald, read by the Lord Chancellor Lord Sankey. His Majesty was made to express "profound satisfaction" with the results of the London Naval Conference,? evacuation of the Rhineland, reparations settlement at The Hague. He concluded with earnest prayers and pious hopes?and Parliament was over...
...their silk hats, motored to the Hotel de Ville behind a clattering escort of brass-helmeted cuirassiers of the Garde Républicaine to make oratory on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Revolution of 1830, which in three days of furious street fighting† swept Charles X from the throne of France, installed the amiable umbrella-wielding Orleanist, Louis Philippe...
Ever since 1922 when Kaiser Karl died of pneumonia on the island of Madeira, indomitable Zita has worked, slaved, plotted to put her eldest, Otto, on the throne of Hungary. Everyone at all favorable to the Habsburg cause-from able, eagle-beaked Ignaz Seipel, twotime Chancellor of Austria, to the last lackadaisical Archduke-she has put to work. When Archduke Albrecht of Hungary formally renounced his aspirations to the throne two months ago (TIME, June 9), when Zita's brother, Prince Sixtus de Bourbon- Parme was given a secret and important interview with one of the most important opponents...