Word: domains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite his anti-British battles in his newspapers (so violent early in the War that he was accused of pro-Germanism), he owns castles in Lincolnshire, England, and in Wales. He has traveled far. He owns in the Coast Range Mountains of California a domain of hundreds of acres, luxuriously complete with castles, works of art, and modern plumbing. His wife is Millicent Willson Hearst, a onetime actress, active in many charities. They have five sons, two of whom are already old enough to function in their father's news factories. Indeed, George, the oldest (23), already controls and operates...
...sole military, civil and judicial head of the islands and is responsible to no one except the President. Few would be the wiser if he had his subjects wash his feet, rub his brow, lull him to sleep. "King" Waldo I will soon gaze upon his domain-the islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, and some 50 adjacent islets controlling the Virgin Passage at the gateway to the Caribbean Sea, 60 miles east of Porto Rico, 1,400 miles from Manhattan. The Virgin Islands were, as every schoolboy knows, discovered by Columbus in 1494 on his second...
...There are," he says to begin with, "nineteen rules governing literary art in the domain of romantic fiction--some say twenty-two. In 'Deerslayer' Cooper violated eighteen of them." Or again, "A work of art? It has no invention; it has no order, system, sequence or result; it has no lifelikeness, no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is funny; its conversations are--oh! indescribable...
...huge success, according to its Moderator, the Rt. Rev. James Endicott. Sailing last week down the St. Lawrence River, headed for Asiatic mission fields, this earnest, enthusiastic worker for Community found time to indite a detailed paean of jubilee of the working of the spirit in his domain that reaches from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Its conclusions were the more remarkable in that the work has been done in a year and a half (the United Church was inaugurated June 10, 1925); they were convincing in that their recorder had just concluded conferences with the great majority of both...
...Poliakov ("Au-srur")-Appleton ($3.50). ²H. R. H.-Major F. E. Verney-Doran ($3.50). ¼³THE TOUR OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA-Ralph Deakin -Lippincott ($4.00). *His full title is instructive as a gazetteer of his eight million square miles of absolute domain: "The Orthodox and Pious and Christ-loving, the absolute Autocrat and Great Lord, Crowned and Elevated by God, Alexander Alexandrovitch, Emperoi and Autocrat of All the Russias, His Tsaric Majesty of Moscow, Kiev, Vladimir, Novgorod, Tsar of Kazan, Tsar of Astrakhan, Tsar of Poland, Tsar of Siberia, Tsar of Chersonesus...