Word: throned
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...buckled shoes and knee breeches. Each queen curtsied low to the evening's guests of honor, Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat. Nixon responded to each with a low bow, and to the strains of Pomp and Circumstance, escorted the Queen of the Ball to her throne...
...strident, state-supported cult of Shinto. The big holiday for nationalist noisemaking was Feb. 11, known as kigensetsu (Foundation Day), solemnly determined by later scholars as the day in 660 B.C. when Japan's founder, Emperor Jimmu, great-great-great-grandson of the Sun Goddess, ascended the throne with the divinely sanctioned mission of making Japan "the center of the world...
Britain's economizing Earl of Harewood, 34, eleventh in succession to the throne, flinched on examining his taxes and living expenses, decided to auction off a goodly lot of his family silverware next month. Biggest prize to go on the block: a toilet service featuring Chinese figures, once the pride of King Charles II, valued at "several thousand pounds...
...exiled son have turned back affectionately to the old state! Aromas more wonderful than the perfumes of Araby. Thrilling hints of the feast to come . . . Unbearable suspense . . . the glad trooping to the dining room to wait until grandma in black silk and white lace is seated on her throne at the foot of the table...
...Lesseps had arrived in Alexandria as a consular official, and read a memoir on the Suez project written by one of Napoleon's aides during the occupation of Egypt 34 years before. He became a close friend of Said, the overweight heir to the Egyptian throne, by giving him free access to the consulate kitchen while the boy's militant father was trying to starve him into a semblance of manly vigor. Sixteen years were to pass before Said and De Lesseps met again. Then, pudgy Said was the ruler of Egypt and Ferdinand had resigned from...