Word: thrones
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...driving full speed toward a cop and slamming on the brakes just in time). Salaheddine's arrest was a sign that the end was near. Before the week was out the 76-year-old Bey, whose family has ruled Tunisia for 250 years, was unceremoniously toppled from his throne, and the throne itself (both as an institution and a piece of furniture) was tossed on the scrap heap of history...
...production is a cast of exceptionally high-quality voices which is agreeably suited to comic opera. Unfortunately, the acting is not always so successful, at least it is not up to the calibre of the singing. In the title roles of the two primi gondolieri and pretenders to the throne of Barataria, Bruce Macdonald and George Brown both sing remarkably well and elicit a great deal of satire from their acting. Neither of the pair strikes one as of the gondoliering or the regal type, but this only serves to heighten the humor...
...extraordinarily good run of health, may be worried over who succeeds him, Dictator Francisco Franco, 64, has agreed that he will permit the restoration of the Spanish monarchy at some unspecified future date. In 1954 he reached a secret understanding with Don Juan, the Pretender to the Spanish throne, who lives in exile in Portugal, for his son Prince Juan Carlos to attend the military academy in Spain. Last week Franco gave Spaniards a sketch of the kind of monarchy he is planning for Spain...
...admiral's rank only this spring) went on to describe Franco as "one of those gifts that Providence grants a nation every three or four centuries," a man "fundamentally antiliberal, anti-capitalist and anti-Marxist." "The person" Franco would choose to "sit in his time on the throne." continued the admiral, would be a man "perfectly identified with" and "absolutely loyal to" the Falange movement. This suggested, just as many Spanish monarchists have long uneasily suspected, that Franco intends to crown not the No. 1 heir Don Juan, but his young son Prince Juan Carlos. Compared with the British...
...throne room at Columbia Pictures resounded with the whoosh of an outsized riding crop swung in anger. Scepter in hand, striding before two rows of Oscars at stiff attention behind his vast desk, Columbia's stubby and balding Boss Harry Cohn fumed with the king-sized wrath of the last Hollywood despot who still runs the studio he built. The year was 1953, the object of his wrath Rita Hayworth, Columbia's reigning love goddess; Rita had flounced out and left the studio with a costly stack of properties bought just for her. Before Cohn's desk...