Word: civilizer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comes up for reelection. He is the representative of a "landed family," the members of which have since 1790 acquired 35,000 acres of land in Livingstone County, N. Y., have occasionally taken part in politics and not infrequently in wars. His father and grandfather fought in the Civil War; he himself served in the Spanish-American War. After warring he turned to farming. He married Alice Hay, daughter of Secretary of State John Hay, in 1902, and since then has been much in politics. What is concerned chiefly in the present situation is that in earlier days he voted...
Four* of Zaniboni's alleged accomplices will be tried on an elaborate charge; "Complicity in an attempted premeditated homicide; conspiracy to foment civil war and revolution, and a violent change in the government and its form; the carrying out of secret and seditious propaganda; and the collection and administration of funds for these several purposes...
...King of Spain-took an oath of obedience to the Holy Inquisition. Finally the Grand Inquisitor delivered a sermon and read out the sentences of condemnation and acquittal. Contrary to general belief, the condemned were not burned during the auto-da-fe proper, but were handed over to the civil power, by which they were exterminated hours or days later...
...plot of the play deals with the enmity between Prince Hal, later Henry V, and Hotspur, a fiery noble with regal aspirations. Hal is a useless drinking companion of Falstaff and his band of blustering pickpockets. When civil war breaks out, Hal puts off his dissipation and kills Hotspur on the field of battle. Hal was played, intermittently well, by Basil Sydney, and Hotspur, for about the same values, by Philip Merivale. Peggy Wood, William Courtleigh, Blanche Ring, Rosamond Pinchot (as Prince John) were among the notables...
...convicted last summer and fined $100 for teaching evolution, contrary to the state law, in a public school at Dayton, Tenn. For Mr. Scopes appeared John T. Neal, onetime head of the state law school, Charles Strong representing the Unitarian Laymen's League, Arthur Garfield Hays for the Civil Liberties Union, Henry Colton on behalf of the Tennessee Academy of Science. They argued that the law was unconstitutional, that evolution and Christianity are not mutually exclusive...