Word: queened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reform party in the legislature, was made Judge of the Hawaiian Supreme Court. In 1890 the King died in California and his sister, Mrs. Lydia Dominis (styled Liliuokalani), the regent, was crowned. She soon showed herself reactionary. Another revolt was led by the "sons of the missionaries." The Queen was forced to abdicate. Sanford B. Dole was declared President of the Republic of Hawaii pending annexation to the U. S. A treaty of annexation was negotiated, but President Cleveland came into office and withdrew the treaty. He sent out a commissioner, who hauled down the U. S. flag and demanded...
...exactly equaling those of the player who has placed the greatest number, then the cards are exposed and the player with the best cards takes the pot. The cards are valued according to an arbitrary system. The "best" possible hand is one which contains ace, king, queen, jack, ten of one suit ("a royal flush"). The lowest possible hand is two, three, four, five, seven in four different suits ("seven high"). There are many variants on the game as here described. In one of them, known as "deuces wild," any deuce is by courtesy allowed to represent any card...
...prepared for the revival of good dramatic literature in the last three, decades of the century. This is without doubt the characteristic of the book which distinguishes it from any other dealing with the seventy years covered. The planning is strictly teleological; the clear focussing upon the terminus ad queen gives the book unity in view of its diverse contents; this alone would argue for the author's mastery of his materials and the clarity of his presentation...
...gold robes at St. James's Palace before hastening over. The Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Prelate of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Primate of England, Archbishop of York, stood with uplifted finger. The scene was the private chapel of Buckingham Palace, Present were the King, the Queen, Edward of Wales, Princess Mary, the Duke and Duchess of York, many another and an unchristened babe...
Lord Chesterfield gave his name to a cigaret; Robert Burns to a cigar. English royalty brought no action because the name of Queen Victoria's consort was borrowed for a frock coat. George Washington is godfather to a kind of coffee; Abraham Lincoln to an automobile. Why then should a descendant of General Ambrose Everett Burnside object to having her uncle remembered for his whiskers? So pleaded the counsel defending Colgate & Co. against a suit for damages brought (TIME, May 31) by Miss Ella Patterson of Milwaukee, niece of the whiskered soldier. Her suit was dismissed...