Word: kins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Storey has played a very prominent role in the political world. President of the American Bar Association in 1898, he became prominent in the National Civil Service Reform League a few years later. In 1905 he was president of the Anti-Imperialist League. Mr. Storey delivered the God-kin lectures at the University in 1920. He has published a volume treating the question "What Shall We Do With Our Dependencies...
Bitter, perhaps, to Queen Elena is the thought that if her kin ever reign again, in Montenegro, it will be through the doing of a one-time hod-carrier, Benito Mussolini, and not due to any potency of her consort, King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. Still less has Queen Elena herself been able to exert any real pressure on events in the kingdom of her father. In a word, she is respected but not admired, adored or heeded by Italians. She came, serious-minded, from her dark Balkan mountains, and the grandeur that was or is Rome has not quickened...
...long as the sun warms the earth let no Christian be so bold as to come to Japan. Let all know that if Kin? Philip* himself or even the very God of the Christians contravene this prohibition they shall pay for it with their heads. Let them think no more of us, just as if we were no longer in the world...
...your language and the manner of most all your "write-ups." The report of the Florida disaster was tremendously effective: "midnight rain came softly pattering like children's footsteps" is fine; "People drowned like trapped puppies to the frivolous dirge of tinkling glass" ; "creatures crept-pawed dazedly-sought kin-bodies"-what a picture! Desolation ; and then "ghouls peered about, tampered with corpses." And so on. I do not mind "famed" or "as everyone knows"; the footnotes are all right; I get a kick out of POINT WITH PRIDE and VIEW WITH ALARM also Quiz. Why are people so solemn...
...Maximilian. History mentions one Maximilian, a Habsburg, appointed Emperor of Mexico by Napoleon Bonaparte; records a successful revolution led by Juarez, the untimely defection of Napoleon's troops, execution of Maximilian. More colorful chronicles relate that Maximilian's proud empress, failing to obtain aid from royal kin in Europe, became insane, another victim of the "curse of the Habsburgs," which has bloodied every generation of that ill-starred line with murder and violence...