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...election... put back into power the old industrial, banking, and conservative interests... which had in fact organized the sinews of war." Their Diet has slowed down reform, and left-wing parties are resorting in disgust to demonstrations and strikes while the legislators haggle about female succession to the throne...
...home in Columbus, Ohio to Jackson, Miss. to compete in a beauty contest sponsored by a dressmaking company. In giddy succession, she had edged 19 other unusual wives out of the title of "Mrs. America," won a $2,500 prize and assorted "emoluments," and sat on a glittery throne. All she had to do in return was to travel around the country for five months modeling the dress company's products...
Along the montaña, the eastern slope, maybe oil would be discovered. The explorer Humboldt spoke of Peru as "a beggar sitting on a golden throne...
Prince Carl Gustav, next in line for Sweden's throne after his grandfather (Crown Prince Gustav Adolf) and father (Prince Gustav Adolf), was enjoying the best year of a monarch's life-his first, with the throne as remote as it would ever be, his world still a sharkless sea of love, and every mistake forgiven. But he was already being equipped for man's estate: from the mountain Lapps he had a gift of a shield, and from Cousin Count Folke Bernadotte he had a pair of gold cuff links...
...might expect, the throne-room of the New England Watch and Ward Society is a cold, bare cell in the far-reaches of the Christian Endeavor Building, just across from the Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children and nigh unto the stronghold of the Anti-vivisection League. In the midst of two city blocks of good-doings, this traditionally New England watchdog of morality slowly undergoes a transition that may transform a 20th Century Inquisition into a same, if overexcited, organ of public conscience. From out of this holy-of-holies stop Beacon Hill have come some...