Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...illustrious predecessor would not have been possible or even tolerable in any other country but France, from whom he took his name-a name extremely difficult to carry and which it took great hopes to assume...
...glory of my predecessor is paradoxical, due to the literary turmoil which made the public rush to him as to an oasis. They were at once pleased with his agreeable language, which could be enjoyed without too much thinking and which pleased by its limpidity, despite the fact that often it revealed an ulterior meaning of not too reassuring a nature...
...Arkansas, Illinois and Missouri a new flood was driving valley-dwellers away from the homes to which they had returned with the receding of the flood waters which now are running into the Gulf of Mexico. The new flood, caused by heavy rains, is not so great as its predecessor, but passes through a country whose shattered levees offer relatively little resistance. Crops, hastily planted in still muddy ground, have been inundated again, and from 15,000 to 20,000 persons in Arkansas alone were once more forced to abandon their homes before the new onrush...
...days of Cleopatra. Zaghlul Pasha was compelled to resign as Premier (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924) when the British exacted within 24 hours a fine of $2,300,000 gold from the Egyptian Government because seven Egyptian students, later hanged, collectively shot and murdered Sir Lee Oliver Fitzmaurice Stack, British predecessor of Spinks Pasha as Sirdar. A year and a half later (TIME, June 7, 1926) the followers of Zaghlul swept to an overwhelming victory in the Egyptian parliamentary election but were prevented by British pressure from making Zaghlul Premier again...
Pius XI says his daily mass in the bedroom where his predecessor Benedict XV died in 1922. (This is the quaint custom of respect which Popes have long paid their immediate predecessors?to pray in the death chamber.) Soon after he attends a second early mass. Then to his private apartments for breakfast of coffee with milk, bread, butter...