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Ahmed Zogu comes from the Mati clan. He was popularly thought of as being "energetic, educated, wealthy, severe." This was before he attempted to have a Constitution drafted by the Diet. After that, he became known as.an "ignorant despot" and was accused of favoring his tribe...
...Manhattans exile any more fortunate in genealogical tree-lore than in word-hunting. He has taken in vain the name of an active, numerous and prosperous Bay State clan, a worthy example of middle-class virtues, but in the Massachusetts sense of "family" still painfully "new," and without the indispensable seventeenth century grace and conservation. The myth of Caroline purple has doubtless been strengthened by certain famous verses, excellent in themselves, but deplorable false to fact and record Perhaps our. New York at Cambridge deserves indigence for falling into popular, a "vulgar, error." Perhaps the Cabot trust insensible increased this...
...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...