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...everyone knows, Shakespeare's dramas, Henry IV and Henry V, trace the development of "Prince Hal," from the days when he consorted with wild tavern rakes until he ascended the throne as Henry V, spurned Falstaff, became renowned as a monarch sagacious and brave...
...TIME, May 3). They came in behalf of "The Son of Heaven," the abdicated Emperor Henry P'u-yi, a handsome clear-skinned boy just turned 20, who ascended the throne in his nurse's arms at the age of two, and toddled down from it, an obliging six-year-old, after the Republican revolution of 1912. For Henry the petitioning delegates asked justice: fulfillment of the abdication agreement of 1912 whereby he is entitled to receive an income of $4,000,000 a year and to retain the incalculably valuable Imperial estates. The delegates reminded Super-Tuchun...
...more if there had been a different picture on the front cover, happen to be one of the millions who had to use "bullets" instead of "ballots" to put "Wilhelm Der Zweite" where he belongs. I was glad to use bullets, in 1918 to endeavor putting him off his throne and I wish I could have used a ballot in 1926 to deprive him of the riches and property which are not his by right and use them for the relief of the poor German people who need...
Standing on a dais before the throne Their Majesties submitted, during the Third Court and the Fourth and final Court next evening, to the respectful stares of some 2000 guests. Among those presented were 16 U.S. citizenesses...
...Pausanias. "It was an image made neither of marble nor of bronze, but of gold and ivory, embellished with ebony, lacquer, and precious stones." The god, he said, held a Victory on his right hand; his left rested on a sceptre on which was perched an eagle. The throne and a footstool were elaborately carved with figures and reliefs, depicting the contests of Centaurs and Lapiths, the wars and weddings of those creatures, part god, part man, that peopled the younger earth. They swarmed at the hips of Zeus and between the legs of his throne, executed by Panaeus, nephew...