Word: domaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rifles, and he likes to slip quietly out of Moscow to the water meadows of the Ukraine to bag a string of ducks. Last week Nikita Khrushchev traveled all the way to Yugoslavia to indulge his hobby in one of Europe's more exclusive hunting grounds: the vast domain at Belje, once a sporting ground of the Habsburg princes, now a model "socialist farm" and preserve of Marshal Tito and his cronies. In a happy day's hunting Khrushchev potted three chamois, one stag. But even as the guns barked at Belje, it was evident-and local Communists...
...saved enough money as a reporter to buy his first newspaper 41 years ago, shrewd Oscar Stauffer, 69, has bought twelve small dailies (total circ. 110,000) and three radio stations,* chiefly in Kansas and the Midwest. Last week, at a single stroke, Stauffer took over the vaster domain (total circ. 5,000,000) of another self-made publisher, Kansas' late Senator Arthur Capper. Reported purchase price...
...violinist and teacher. A handsome, strongly built fellow with a resonant voice, he was soon speaking of music as another merchant might of hardware, and selling it as enthusiastically. In 1915 he became manager of the Philadelphia Orchestra, then founded his own concert agency. Gradually he added to his domain: in 1922 he became business manager of the New York Philharmonic, and in 1927 he became a co-founder of the Columbia Broadcasting System, gleefully predicting an immense shortage of artists as radio grew...
These were the most brilliant flowers of Bloomsbury, the domain of London's intelligentsia that clusters around the British Museum-where Garnett's grandfather was an official-and whose hothouse air Constance (Garnett's mother, translator of War and Peace) breathed into her son. In the present volume Garnett, whom his friends all called "Bunny", tells about World War I, but this is a war reminiscence of a special kind. For Bloomsbury's Bunny was a conscientious objector. In 1914 Rupert, who was soon to write...
There remains a third circle−a circle which stretches across continents and oceans and which is the domain of our brothers in faith who all, wherever under the sun they may be, turn as we do in the direction of Mecca and whose devout lips speak the same prayers...