Word: possession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foot, cried: "I am afraid, Meinheer, that you are negligent. ... I am the Princess of the Netherlands, sole heiress to the Throne. ... I am not accustomed to change trains." Oddly enough such displays of temper proved extremely popular among stolid Hollanders, who rejoiced that their Crown Princess seemed to possess all the characteristic dash and spirit of the Royal House of Orange. Wise Queen Emma curbed her daughter so adroitly that the present Queen Wilhelmina was once heard to exclaim with girlish penitence. "Oh, I've been naughty again! Mother says so with her eyes." Queen Mother Emma...
Finally, let able Jumper Hoyt state why he jumped. TIME assumes him to possess a better reason than that given by one Elsie Ekengren, 17-year-old schoolgirl, who told reporters that after making his acquaintance on shipboard she girlishly cried, "I dare you to jump overboard," whereupon Jumper Hoyt jumped...
...very remarkable how that great invasion of women into the workaday world has receded. Industry is not stationary; had women shown themselves to possess the necessary skill and the inclination to retain their place in it they could not have been replaced so easily. . . . Even a feminist must be aware that the reason, and the sole reason, why women have retained any hold on such posts is economic. They are permitted to do a man's work because they do it more cheaply. The reason they are able to sell their labor at a lower price is because women...
...first pretending to take a sip himself. When the Debauchee's potent digestion resisted liquid poison, Rasputin was induced to eat several pastries containing cyanide of potassium. Expectantly the nobles waited for their victim to collapse, and blanched with fear as the Black Monk, who was believed to possess occult powers, became merely hilarious after absorbing enough poison to kill a healthy elephant...
...assume that imperative secret messages have passed, during the last two months, between the mighty Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and the puny Republic of Austria. The Prime Minister of Austria, Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, is a conservative, and no fool. He knows that the Communists of Vienna unquestionably possess supplies of arms and that not long ago they staged murderous riots. All would not be well in Austria if Bela Kun, the most prominent agitator in the employ of the Moscow Third International, should come to harm...