Word: bore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mary I ("Bloody Mary," 1516-1558) and her husband King Philip II of Spain bore jointly perhaps the most diversified title ever attached to English sovereigns: "Philip and Mary, by the Grace of God, King and Queen of England and France, Naples, Jerusalem and Ireland, Princes of Spain and Sicily, Archdukes of Austria, Dukes of Milan, Burgundy and Brabant...
...against the religious movement of which he was the leader. Although he had, repeatedly, urged his fellows in the evangelical party to take wives to demonstrate their Christian liberty, he himself waited until comparatively late in life because of the constant jeopardy in which he lived. The estimable Katharina bore him five children who survived infancy and herself followed him to his grave...
Since William K. Vanderbilt reputedly spent in excess of $1,000,000 in connection with the marriage of his daughter to "Briton's proudest Duke," and since Consuelo Vanderbilt bore the Duke two sons and remained his wife for 25 years, divorcing him in 1920, wild rumors fled about last week as to why at this late date she has obtained a Roman Catholic decree of annulment effecting her ducal marriage which was performed in St. Thomas's Episcopal Church, Manhattan...
Staggering beneath a huge pine coffin, little brown men bore it through the streets of Tokyo last week, let it down at last with a thud on the doorstep of Premier Heijiro Wakatsuki's official residence...
...cavalry to cut in from the wings, attacking the on-coming column on both flanks. Then he ordered reserves to bolster up the centre. The result was that the cavalry cut the main body of the advancing column to pieces by their simultaneous flank attacks, while the reenforced centre bore the brunt of the Austrian 'spear-head...