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...after his confidence about the Speech from the Throne, the Premier answered a summons to the Palace. There the young King hung about his neck the Grand Cordon of Mohammed Ali-highest honor Egypt can bestow. Proudly Sabry Pasha proceeded to the Chamber of Deputies to deliver his King's short speech. The Chamber was packed, and brilliantly. In the visitors' section sat beautiful Queen Farida, demure in a white veil; the jeweled wives of Egypt's aristocrats; diplomats in all their brocade; generals in all their braid. The King sat a few feet from the rostrum...
...wine, placed them in the River Nyu, and when the drunken fish wobbled to the surface, he said good times were coming. A kite of brilliant feathers perched on his bow and dazzled his enemies' eyes out. Then one day in 660 B.C. he acceded to the world-throne-i.e., Japan's; and the cloudless blue weather of that day made him utter four cryptic words which now are taken to mean that Japan should expand to the ends of the earth: "Eight directions...
...throne his, Dr. Di Ghilini set out to prove what he had suspected from Latin and Spanish inscriptions on it: that it had belonged to Spain's great Queen Isabella. For years an international art dealer, Benjamin Benguiat, had owned the throne, refused to sell it even for $25,000. But when Benguiat went bankrupt, Dealer Dan Feldman purchased the throne in a lot, priced it at $3,000. Eventually believing it was a jinx, he sold it to Dealer Osiel in another...
When Dr. Di Ghilini learned all this, he resolved to have some fun with Mr. Osiel. The magician persuaded yet another dealer to tell Dealer Osiel that he had a buyer for the throne at $5,000. According to Magician Di Ghilini, Dealer Osiel hotfooted over, offered to buy the throne back from him for $1,000. Dr. Di Ghilini thereupon pretended to go into a trance, told Mr. Osiel of the $5,000 deal. Excited Mr. Osiel rushed to the district attorney, declared that Dr. Di Ghilini had read his mind, hypnotized...
...court went Partners Osiel and Spencer, demanding 1) return of the throne on the ground that Dr. Di Ghilini had not delivered all the pictures he promised; 2) an injunction restraining Dr. Di Ghilini from selling the throne until the case is settled. Last week Osiel and Spencer petitioned the Hollywood court to strike from Dr. Di Ghilini's answer to their charges certain "irrelevancies," notably his reference to the fake trance. Said Mr. Spencer, now convinced the throne was indeed Isabella's, "Like Great Britain, we'll win the last battle." Unconcerned, Dr. Di Ghilini last...