Word: reign
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hounds to Jeeps. Giovanni passed most of his beautiful things on to his younger son Alessandro, who justified his father's confidence. His most notable undertaking was the conversion into farmland of Lake Fucino-a problem which had been, on the agenda since the reign of the Emperor Claudius I (B.C. 10-A.D. 54). "Either I will dry up Fucino," said Alessandro, "or it will dry me up." After eleven years, Alessandro won; the family still rents out most of Fucino's 35,000 acres to tenants at $40 an acre a year...
...Uncle David, then Prince of Wales, had shown no signs of relinquishing his heritage when it came. Even should her father, the Duke of York, become king, there was still an elder sister ahead of Margaret. -Five years later her Uncle David became King Edward VIII. Then, suddenly his reign was over, and he went off to marry Wallis Warfield. "Are they going to cut off his head?" Margaret asked her big sister expectantly when she heard the news. When she finally understood that her own father was to be the monarch, her interest gave way to bored impatience...
...this vitality that makes Mencken always worth reading. He considers himself an eminently civilized man, and perhaps he is, but in the process of becoming one, through an education self-administered chiefly in Baltimore's public library, he did not at the same time become refined. He gives free reign to his impulses and to his notions; he does not bother to qualify, to mitigate, to water-down. Consequently he writes with a vigor which approaches what those of us with more refined sensibilities might call bombast, but which is preferable a hundred times to the cautious standards...
...Munch gave with the Conservatory in France proves quite the contrary. An analysis of two full years' programs show that over two thirds of the music played was not French. A surprisingly large amount of all the music Munch programmed has seldom been played in Boston during Koussevitzky's reign. Munch has an extremely broad repertory, and there is no doubt that he will widen that of the Boston Symphony considerably. The same is true for the Harvard Glee Club, which will be singing many works for the first time in years under Munch...
...reign as president was not a glamourous one. Though he did build Silliman College and raise the Yale endowment another $16 million, he made internal matters his main concern. He placed the major disciplines-the sciences, social sciences, humanities, fine arts and medicine -under divisional (not merely departmental) directors, reorganized the Sheffield Scientific School, strengthened Yale's Institute of International Studies, and to the horror of many a student, introduced a required reading program for summer vacations...