Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eighteenth Century glass is just as interesting in its way and serves as a good contrast to the modern work. The old glass is mainly from the factories of Steigel and Wistarburg, two pioneers in the art of American glass blowing, who worked in the middle of the eighteenth century...
...American collegiate buildings clearly reveal the fierceness of the fight--from the first halls of the Eighteenth Century to the "University of the Future" existing only in the dreams...
Brighton was merely a small health resort when George of Wales made it his summer court. Eighteenth Century physicians commonly prescribed large quantities of mineral water for all ailments; at Brighton invalids dosed themselves accordingly and discovered the pleasures of bathing almost by accident. By the time Prince George arrived, bathing had become popular, although noblemen were still usually so dirty that no sensitive person could stay long in a crowd of them. At Brighton the young prince found congenial companions-most of them enemies of his father-and with them raced horses, chased girls, picked quarrels, went shooting...
...guillotine takes its deadly toll as The Terror rules Paris. But Citizen Robespierre is annoyed. Victim after victim slips through his fingers and crosses the channel to England, all through the infernal machinations of that "Damned elusive Pimpernel." Into the background of eighteenth century France and England Leslie Howard fits like a package of cigarettes in cleophane. As the uncannily clever schemer disguised as an old hag, as the suave nobleman who courts, death to save his friends, the nobles of the French court, as the fastidious fop who advises the Prince of Wales on the proper jabeau, Howard...
Poland, a nation who has learned how to suffer since at least the eighteenth century, knows today that her troubles have just begun. When the body of Marshal Pilsudski has been laid in Wawel Castle beside his nation's heroes, Poles will be forced to put aside their black crepe and face the gloomiest of realities. Before them is the acid test of dictatorship: the question of what to do when a state which has been raised upon the personality of one man finds that he is gone. If history means anything, the autocracy has one of two fates...