Word: ams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dutch courtiers know a story of how the little Princess made herself Queen of the Netherlands by a single bold stroke. Senile King Willem had been paying court to her elder sister, Princess Helen, who tactfully refused him on account of his age and reputation. At this crucial moment young...
The testament of Lenin referred to by Exile Trotsky constituted Lenin's intellectual last will and legacy to the Soviet Union; but has been suppressed in Russia by Dictator Stalin because it contains the following damning passage: "Comrade Stalin, having become general secretary, has concentrated an enormous power in...
:' 'When I was 25 years old I wrote a book on how to invest money wisely and look at me now. I actually am in need of food. I suspect that when you are my age you will be about as I am.'
Will Rogers, in the only daily syndicate feature carried by the New York Times, wrote: "Am here at Winona Lake, Ind. It's to the Presbyterians what the River Jordan was to those foreigners over there in the old days. These meet here to wash their sins away every...
But on another day His Majesty had an opportunity to climb aboard the Nina and say: "I am the King of Spain," to which young Elihu Root Jr. of Manhattan replied: "We had recognized Your Majesty." Nina, tiniest of all the yachts and first to finish in the race from...