Word: conquer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While Dr. Sun lived, Chiang Kai-shek was but an humble disciple. After his death, the disciple eventually became generalissimo of all the Nationalist Armies and led them up from Canton to conquer the southern half of China (TIME...
...seen whether the despotic machine of Stalin can. Kicked out, they yet believe that alone are the chosen vessels in which reposes the spirit of Lenin - in Russia Lenin is, in sober truth, a God. In his name Trotsky will certainly plot and and perhaps conquer. After all "Lenin & Trotsky" is a couplet revered by millions to whom "Lenin & Stalin" rings unfamiliar, hollow strange...
...Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence would have given the $500,000 to establish breweries and plant vineyards for production of light wine and beer. He believed that would conquer whiskey, which, he said, killed half the population in his day and ruined their families. It wasn't as bad as bootleg whiskey and killed slowly, if surely...
...early came to the U. S. with her laborer father. She married a bartender and left him to earn her own living, which she started to do in vile "honkytonks" with sawdust on the floor-at eight dollars a week. She once related that when she went to conquer Manhattan the city so nearly conquered her that she and a girl who came with her from the west decided to kill themselves. Now she is one of the most highly paid dancers in the world...
...many another. Ladies are admitted to reception on Shakespeare's Birthday; also the spring evening when the annual Players all-star revival gives its last performance. Then, in the garden, supper is served and the cast and its invited actresses sit down in costumes of She Stoops to Conquer, The Rivals or perhaps Henry VI. There is no significance in this gathering; it is simply a custom of The Players, where the gentle riches of tradition prosper in seclusion. Some say the ghost of Booth that evening sits down at table...