Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Buchan's ability to say the right thing reaches its flower in The People's King, the Jubilee history of George V's reign, which Houghton Mifflin will publish in the U. S. on May i. Of George V it says little: that he has a tenacious memory, is the first British King since Charles II to be a first-class practitioner of a field sport (shooting), that the British Government suppressed the fact that during the null horse reared and fell on him. Of the British institution of the Throne it says much: "A calm...
...overthrow Mendieta, forcing his Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista to set up a military dictatorship and thus offer a perfect target for a good rousing Revolution later on. Last week's weapons were the ubiquitous Cuban bomb and the dread general strike which ended the reign of Tyrant Gerardo Machado two years...
Explanations are always odious; but it is quite certain that History 5 examinations start early from the best of motives. The most plausible motive for it is the extension of the reign of reason of the Rousseau and Montesquieu school of Philosophy to practical schedule making. For be it known that History 5 is entitled the Growth of America--our own America--and these are the principles upon which was builded the Constitution of our great commonwealth. What could be more fitting than the assurance that these principles have so imbued the soul of the management that they apply them...
...REIGN OF SOAPY SMITH-William Ross Collier & Edwin Victor Westrate-Doubleday, Doran...
Never in his long reign has George V, King, Emperor and Defender of the Faith, been so insulted as was His Majesty last week by smiling Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn, bumptiously cheerful New Deal Premier of the Province of Ontario...