Word: hanoverian
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...Brown. The black rats (Rattus rattus rattus) of ancient history invaded the granaries of Egypt, afflicted the Hebrews with plague, and are reported to have stimulated the Romans to import snakes to kill them. They reached England during the reign of the House of Hanover, and were therefore called "Hanoverian rats." In modern India, black rats infest lower-caste houses, where they are protected by religious sanctions...
Ocean of Neck. The London Handel moved to in 1712 was a bawdy place of brawling and bawling. Handel did well at court. Queen Anne, who had little use for musicians, pensioned him just to spite her Hanoverian cousins. Anne's successor, lumpish George I, attended almost all his operas with his favorite German mistress and her "two acres of cheeks ... an ocean of neck." The rest of London was more fickle. Addison, who had written an unsuccessful opera himself, denounced and ridiculed Handel's music. Handel's rival, the egocentric Giovanni Battista Bononcini, kept him fighting...
...mother's side)-and made a point of saying so when he was among Scots. "I remember that in my early days," Stanley Baldwin once said, "it was with difficulty that one could stand up while the band was playing God Save the King, because we had a Hanoverian and not a Jacobite king." More significant was the rest of his background: upper middle class, Harrow-Cambridge, chapel-turned-Church, just the proper mixture of trade and land and what he proudly admitted were "second-class brains." With this equipment, plus a sturdy character, for three times as Prime...
...read: "DARTMOUTH DAILY HANOVERIAN--'CRIMSON' PLANNING PUBLISH FAKE ISSUE HANOVERIAN' (sic) TO BE DISTRIBUTED IN STANDS SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9-- THE HARVARD LAMPOON...
...gave the Corps its Prussian base. Napoleon and his defeat of the Prussians at Jena gave the G.S.C. its first great strategic concepts-the wielding of massive armies and the conscription needed to provide the uniformed mass. Two non-Prussians, calm, scholarly General Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, a Hanoverian, and impetuous, dashing August Wilhelm Anton von Gneisenau, coalesced these concepts. Scharnhorst founded the War Academy, from which Staff officers were chosen, and Gneisenau, as chief of staff of the Prussian army, put the new ideas to work. In Bismarck's time, non-Prussian Helmuth Karl von Moltke made...