Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whether it is the King. I know it instantly by the sudden, strange feeling of his strong and very royal personality." Alfonso XIII had been born a king, six months after the death of his father in 1885. When he took over power from a regency on his 16th birthday he had already learned how to feel and behave as a king. He never felt or behaved any other...
Beside the Battle of 1941, the 16th-century Battle of Lepanto, which finally reasserted the dominance of Christendom over the infidel Turk, seems an uncomplicated affair. In it 208 low Christian galleys and six monstrous galleasses submitted 250 Turkish galleys to a parade of broadsides, sank 80 and captured 130. During the action Cervantes (Don Quixote) received three gunshot wounds, one of which maimed his left hand-"for the greater glory of the right," he said...
Other art works added to the collections were a Persian ink drawing of the late 16th century; a Persian miniature from a Shah-Namah of the early 15th century; three capitals, five small pieces of sculpture, and eleven small bronzes from the Antioch expedition; two drawings by Picasso; water colors or paintings by Charles H. Woodbury, Stuart Henry and Raymond Breinin; two water colors by Dobujinsky; an album of lithographs by Gustave Dore, "La Menagerie Parisienne," Chinese woodblock prints of the 18th century; a Lydian potter ointment vase of the 6th century; and a silver tablespoon by Zachariah Brigden...
...economic policy. "Its judgment in the Dred Scott case was overruled by war. Its judgment that the currency that preserved the Union could not be made legal tender was overruled by Grant's selection of an additional Justice. Its judgment invalidating the income tax was overruled by the 16th Amendment. Its judgments repressing labor and social legislation are now abandoned. Many of the judgments against New Deal legislation are rectified by confession of error...
...armchairs, the Grolier is a club of booklovers more interested in a richly tooled cover than in a succulent footnote or limpid trochee. It was founded in 1884 by craftsmen and wealthy collectors to improve the then wretched state of U. S. bookmaking. Its name commemorates a great 16th-Century connoisseur of covers & colophons, Jean Grolier de Servier. Viscount d'Aguisy...