Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cross section of society, with the relations of individuals in that cross section. Mr. Cozzens pretends that this is not so--he furnishes a plot, and a rather melodramatic plot--but it, is really unessential. The longitudinal, progressive element in the book is insignificant, and the plot loses its claim to conviction in the happy ending, when Don Miguel, the omnipotent and implacable dictator, presents the heroine with some of Queen Isabella's jewels, in admiration of the really remarkable way in which she has thwarted his best laid plans
...fabulous wealth and sophisticated Versailles breeding. Christian's estate glittered with exotic tropic birds and costly tapestries; his person with jewels, velvet, and fine lace fichus. His soldiers adored him, all Europe feared him. Yet Christian was branded with the bar sinister; the only title he could really claim was, affectionate or derisive, "General Crack." Aside from legitimacy there was only one thing that he wanted, and that the hand of Leopold's fiancee, fair Eleanora. In return he promised to vanquish the enemies of the empire, and establish Leopold on the imperial throne...
Nominee Hoover said: "The Republican administration makes no claim to credit which belongs to the enterprise, energy and character of a great people...
...Since practically every Hungarian is a royalist, the perennial squabble between Budapest politicians is over whether to elect a king or to recognize the legitimate claim of Prince Otto of Habsburg. Last week legitimist Hungarians were wroth to the point of oaths and tears because Prime Minister Count Stephen Bethlen has just appointed the leader of the electionists, Herr Julius Gombos, to be Under Secretary...
John Coolidge, 22, finished the first week of his business career as file-and-claim-clerk in the New Haven offices (ugly yellow brick building) of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad; salary, $30 a week; hours, 8:30 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. Said he: "I like...