Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among Professor Copeland's readings will be: "Desire", by James Stephens, author of "The Crock of Gold", and the tournament scene from "A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court", by Mark Twain...
...Castle was born in Honolulu, and his father was King Kalakaua's minister in Washington. He was graduated from Harvard in 1000 and was an instructor and assistant dean here from 1904 to 1913, During the American participation in the World War, he was director of the bureau of communications of the American Red Cross. Entering the state department as a special assistant in 1919, he was gradually promoted until he reached his present position of assistant secretary of state...
...Peshawar, British India, anyone possessed of the sum of 6¢ could obtain a graphic idea of what King Nadir meant by "severe punishment." Photographs were on view, at 12 annas a peek, showing the execution of Bacha Sakao, the Water Boy Bandit King (TIME, Nov. 11). Contrary to official reports, cabled accounts, Bacha Sakao was not "humanely shot." With ankles loaded with heavy chains, he and his five companions had ropes knotted about their necks, were hauled into the air, to strangle slowly. No coward, Bandit Bacha scoffed and jeered at his executioners while breath...
...Lone Wolf of Alaska." After arousing German enthusiasm by being the first outsider to pilot Claude Dornier's 12-motored flying boat, the DO-X (TIME, Nov. 25), George King, "lone wolf of Alaska," tuned the enthusiasm to higher pitch last week by proposing a flight, in a Junkers plane similar to the Atlantic flying Bremen (TIME, April 23, 1928), from Dessau, Germany, across Siberia, Alaska, Canada, to New York...
...prophet of Free Silver, ran against Hanna's man McKinley, he was hardly known outside Ohio's borders. He worked at his father's grocery and shipping business until he had made a fortune out of it; married Charlotte Augusta Rhodes, daughter of Coal-and-Iron-King Daniel Rhodes, lost his fortune and went into partnership with his father-in-law. Soon Rhodes & Co. became M. A. Hanna & Co. Long before he showed his whole political hand Hanna began to take an interest in politics. He attended the Republican conventions of 1888 and 1892, but he bided...