Word: reign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kingdom of England is only 1,000 years old." "These last 6,000 years-brief though they are . . ." "After all, the reign of man on the Earth . . . is so far only about 100,000 years...
...descendants of "the winged insects [which came] into existence about 250 million years ago." Could these ants and bees "acquire even that glimmer of intellectual understanding that man has possessed in his day," they might rebuild civilization-looking back on "the advent of the mammals, and the brief reign of the human mammal, as almost irrelevant episodes, 'full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...
...most M.P.s thought the death penalty had little influence on the murder rate. Some recalled that objections like Ede's were raised more than a century ago to oppose the reform of Britain's brutal criminal laws. In George III's reign, more than 200 crimes were punishable by death. Among them: felling a tree, picking a pocket, associating with gypsies for a month. In 1810, to a proposal to abolish 'the death penalty for shoplifting of articles worth five shillings or more, Lord Ellenborough had solemnly objected: "I trust your lordships will pause before...
After Tom Pendergast got his grip on the city administration, its seamy side got much more national attention than its solid core of respectability and its increasing commercial importance. During Pendergast's reign, the town was a free-&-easy capital of grifters, gamblers, gangsters and striptease grinders. In no other city in the U.S. were vice and gambling so well protected. When the Boss needed money, his boys put a deeper bite on the brothel-keepers, bookies and crapshooters. Tom Pendergast, who made his town a trap for suckers, turned out to be one of the biggest suckers himself...
Both Black & Brown. The black rats (Rattus rattus rattus) of ancient history invaded the granaries of Egypt, afflicted the Hebrews with plague, and are reported to have stimulated the Romans to import snakes to kill them. They reached England during the reign of the House of Hanover, and were therefore called "Hanoverian rats." In modern India, black rats infest lower-caste houses, where they are protected by religious sanctions...