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Anything but damped in ardor, 12,000 Ethiopian soldiers began a war dance in the mud, roared, "Death to the Italians!" and finally became so threatening that some had to be driven with bayonets off the steps of the Throne. Ethiopian officers leaped about with such prized weapons as rifles, a favorite routine being to drop to the ground, pretend to fire, then leap up with a whoop. Finally, excited Dedjazmatch (General) Bayenna led a shrieking cavalry charge past the Throne and wheeled about to cry, "Emperor, fear not the politics of the outer world! The Gods are with...
...sleeping princess--and a beautiful one, too! Already--valiant fellow! --he has slain the fire-eyed dragon. Already--oh clever one! --he has cut a piece from her priceless veil. Already--with his wand--he has awakened her from her magic sleep; already seated her on her golden throne. And things thus far are going well. Already he has approached her with these sweet words: "My fairest princess, dost thou not know me?" Then the expected answer: "My noble Knight, I know thee not." And then the brave Vagabond shows her the piece cut from her veil, exactly fitting...
...recent trip abroad wily old Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris ascertained that British King George frowns upon the project of some Greek Royalists to seat the Duke of Kent upon their vacant throne (TIME, Aug. 19); that despite the feelings of his Greece-born, Greece-loving Duchess, the Duke personally recoils from a project so adventurous and, finally, that London bankers are now backing deposed Georgios II who never abdicated as King of Greece. Last week British George V once more showed where he stood by having "Gorgeous Georgios" II as his grouse-shooting guest at Balmoral in Scotland. In Athens Premier...
Sophie was received at court, where she was as welcome as a leper. The revolution of 1830 placed Louis Philippe on the throne. Prince de Condé, still surrounded by Sophie's brawny cousins and lovers, tried to flee the country, was discovered by Sophie and subsequently strangled in his bed. An investigation, establishing Sophie's guilt, was suppressed by the king. Sophie had her wealth, her entrée into society, but she was hissed in the theatre, snubbed on all sides, while her scandal nearly overthrew the government. She developed into a monstrous, muscular, scowling...
...Stefan Zweig's analysis, Mary's greatness lay in her passionate surrender of her throne when love overwhelmed her. But his accounts of conditions in Scotland give the impression that she surrendered for love what had already been lost by politics. Far more convincing than his analysis of her emotional development is his picture of Mary entering Scotland when it had already been lost to Catholicism, groping wildly for support in the first years of her reign, marrying Darnley in a confused effort to satisfy Elizabeth, turning from Darnley when she found that the marriage meant only greater...