Word: clan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Princess. Nagako's father, General Prince Kuni, grandson of a former 'Emperor, represented Japan in the U. S. in 1909 at the Hudson-Fulton celebration. During her infancy he was at the Russo-Japanese front. Her mother sprang from the clan of Satsuma, stern in virtue. Nagako, aged 21, was born in the simplest of imperial residences. She attended the Peeresses' School when General Nogi was its President. Japan regards her as "the personification of beauty, virtue and love...
Varying degrees of humor were shown in the fictitious names chosen by the individuals and groups applying. "Aces; All Aces" lay at the top of the pile, closely followed by "Faith, Hope, and Charity" which brilliant idea occurred to three groups. The "Blue Shux Clan" put in its bid for notoriety as did also "What Girls...
...Poincaré belongs. His answers were found unsatisfactory, with the result that the leaders of the Block National went over his head and approached President Millerand direct, as it was the latter who, with ex-Premer Clemenceau, founded the Bloc in 1919, when Millerand made his famed Ba-Ta-Clan speech (so named from the Paris theatre in which the speech was delivered) which laid down the objects of the Bloc...
...resource of shocking the public into buying. But as the stimulant grows stronger, its effects become less potent, and one day the revolution against Victorian sentiment and unexiting domesticity will itself be revolted against. And then these literary dinosaur eggs will become as petrified as those of Pope's clan...
...making it impossible for the health officials of Nigeria to stamp out the plague. Dr. Shapara was initiated into the society and took part in its secret ritual in order to learn how to combat it. With this knowledge the Government of the colony was able to abolish the clan and to control smallpox...