Word: prowesses
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...time, at every period, the affairs of Kings have been governed by strumpets." As Henri's Queen, she showed what she thought of strumpets by never interfering, by doing her quiet queenly duty to the King's taste. Henri liked his exercise and was proud of his prowess at tilting. One unlucky day he ran one course too many with the Captain of his Guard and got the point of a lance...
...Soong. It was rumored that Mme Chiang was coming. The North China satrap Marshal Yen Hsi-shan was already represented. Other Chinese satraps were rushing their ''advisers" to Sian. If kidnapped Dictator Chiang was still alive, he had an unrivaled opportunity to show his prowess in Leadership...
...from being delighted by Feller's prowess, Cleveland was alarmed. Other clubs promptly offered to buy him. When Cleveland refused to sell, other club-owners raised the question of whether Cleveland really had any title to Feller in the first place. A minor-league club protested to Tsar Landis...
Famed for its crew-which this year won the Intercollegiate and Olympic championships-its ski teams and its swimmers, the University of Washington's football prowess was great from 1908 through 1916, when its coach was famed Gilmour ("Gloomy Gil") Dobie, later at Cornell, now at Boston College. The year before Dobie arrived, Washington lost four games and the year after he left, it won only...
...room oratory. Earnest, rotund, prematurely grey, he extends his good nature not only to his players but to his four assistants, with whom he discusses the week's plans for five hours every Sunday night, and to whom he assigns most of the credit for Northwestern's prowess...