Word: gotha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world growing yearly more democratic, on the threshold of a great naval disarmament conference, new editions of the intransigeant annuals of blue bloods and battleships came last week from their respective publishers: the squat red Almanach de Gotha and long blue Jane's Fighting Ships. In recent years, editing the 167-year-old Almanach de Gotha, "genealogical, diplomatic and statistical annual," has been no mean task. Bound by tradition to list only the members of regal, princely and ducal families, the genteel editors have been obliged by a shortage of European aristocracy to fill their sedate pages with such...
Unlike the Almanach de Gotha's authors, who maintain a ponderous delitescence, are the British editors of Jane's Fighting Ships. They preface their pages of photographs, statistics and "recognition silhouettes" of the world's warships with a brief foreword reviewing the year's progress in warship building, the outlook for the year to come. Chief comments: "It is difficult to imagine that present proposals for the abolition of the submarine have any chance of success." "The 10,000-ton Washington treaty type of cruiser will prove of very doubtful value for future naval operations...
...course George V, Edward of Wales and the Duke of York all visited Germany before the War, when the British royal house was that of Saxe Coburg und Gotha-rechristened 'Windsor" on July...
...Spike' Nave back at the Point) is down to its last thesaurus. There of our casulties are in the romance language division. We are being shelled as I write. The sulcide squad, as we call the English department, was virtually annihilated at 3.30 P.M. on Tuesday, when an enemy Gotha let fall a flight or poisoned shakespears. My aide, Corporal Jones, (he hasn't done so well since he left the Point after his team lost to Harvard) is carrying on with a paradigm of the Sanskrit ninth declension in his left breast...
Archaeologists were glad: In the Altai Mountains, along northern Tibet, Dr. Roerich found tombs like those of Ancient Goths in eastern Europe. Buckles ornamented with Goth-like double eagles strengthened his theory. Tibetans told him that anciently the country around Lhasa was called Gotha...