Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Have any of your other readers called attention to the remarkable resemblance which John Singleton Copley's portrait of 18th...
What power! We have known nothing like it since my ancestor, Peter the Great, broke a window into Europe by overrunning the Baltic states in the 18th Century...
...Dean's" nickname is no great exaggeration. An occasional enthusiastic visitor to the U.S.S.R., roguish Dr. Hewlett Johnson, 73, who looks like an 18th Century character in need of a haircut, has long been one of Communism's warmest apologists. He is a member of the London Daily Worker's editorial board. His political ululations have been an increasing embarrassment to the Church...
...percentages on the sale of pictures, silver, jewelry, furniture, china have brought the house a prosperity equal to its fame. In 1941, the old King Street auction room was bombed out. In recent months the house has conducted its business rent-free in Lord Spencer's 18th Century house in St. James's Place. As overhead is low, the seven partners make a gross profit of over ?100,000 on an annual gross of ?1,000,000. British stocks in public companies usually pay no more than 6%. But Christie shares, all held by the partners, are estimated...
Stanley Baldwin was born Aug. 3, 1867 in Wilden, Worcestershire, the town where his great-grandfather in the late 18th Century had started the family fortune by building an iron foundry. Baldwin's nurse, to assure his success, climbed to the attic with the newborn baby, stood on a chair, and raised him toward the roof...