Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Narcotics. "It is openly alleged in Boston that Charles ('King') Solomon is head of the dope racket ... is the chief source of supply for all wires, runners, peddlers and addicts in New England . . . has reaped unbelievable profits...
...Gade, W. H. Gassett, N. F. Glidden, Jr., G. S. Greene, W. S. Greenlees, R. L. Hoguet, Jr., J. W. Hallowell, V. M. Harding, Jr., J. R. Henshaw, G. R. Holden, F. S. Holmes, J. A. Holmes, J. A. Hornaday, J. D. Hyman, R. G. Kennelly, B. J. King, A. L. Kowarsky, A. D. Langmuir...
Carol, "Good King Wenceslas" Traditional Chorale, "O My Deir Hert" J. S. Bach French Carol, "Touro-Louro-Louro...
Louis XI was no picture-book king. He had "a long ugly nose . . . a pair of oblique eyes too deeply set, thin lips, a powerful jaw . . . a jutting chin;" was less than middle height, bald, thin-shanked, shabbily dressed. A great talker himself, though direct and blunt, he required others to be the soul of brevity. Like many autocrats, he preferred plain people to the aristocracy. His favorite hat, high-peaked, shapeless, banded with leaden images of saints, was famed. But once at least he ordered a new one. He wrote to his General of Finances: "I have forgotten...
...King Alfonso XIII seldom visits Barcelona, though it is one of Spain's important cities and he has there a sumptuous palace with a plenitude of peacocks. He avoids it because the Catalans, no lovers of the monarchy, think nothing of regicide and occasionally throw bombs at royal persons. They are revolutionaries to a man and their principal city is a fester of social and political unrest. José de Creeft, sculptor, is no exception. Born in Guadalajara, he studied in Barcelona and has been an art-rebel since his early days. He shocked and amused Paris with...