Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thanks to his sagacity and his apparent incompetence, Claudius came unscathed through the ruthless realpolitik of Augustus' reign, the tyrannies of Tiberius', the craziness of Caligula's. A Roman of the old school, nostalgic for the Republic, he saw that Rome was headed in a showier direction. His stoicism kept him fairly equable through bankruptcy, an accusation of treason, a near-drowning, when he was thrown into the River Rhone by Caligula's orders. In the sabbatanic orgies at the palace Claudius played well his appointed role of buffoon, bided his time. But when a conspiracy...
...seems that during the reign of President Lowell, word was received at the controlling offices of Harvard's culinary enterprise that the Great Man was desirous of the services of someone to set up a formal dinner table. A steward was dispatched on the sport, with explicit orders to leave behind him the most perfectly arranged and executed masterpiece within the scope of his capabilities. This he proceeded to carry out in a fashion acceptable even to the extremely fastidious taste of the President, who, unbeknown to the Great Lord of the Kitchen, carefully inspected everything before dismissing...
...months the Midwest has cringed under a reign of terror. For every kidnapping and extortion reported in the Press, perhaps a dozen others went unrecorded as respectable citizens had their first terrifying contact with crime and kept mum about it. Last week a new chapter in the history of Midwest crime was being forced upon them, a chapter less terrifying to most men individually, but one that reached unmatched heights of daredevil ruthlessness. It was the third chapter in the career of Desperado John Dillinger...
...also assured last week of one more season at least. Shrouded in mystery has been the Metropolitan's second tin-cup campaign. The public was solicited but not informed of the needed guarantee. At an expensive opera ball staged to represent the Court at Fontainebleau in the reign of Louis XV, Soprano Lucrezia Bori came out as Mlle Cleophile de L'Opera, curtsied to such royal impersonators as sleek Artist Boutet de Monvel (King Louis) and Mrs. Vincent Astor (Austria's Maria Theresa), dramatically declared that the Metropolitan was saved...
...these knew what the Occidental Press had not bothered to find out. Behind the youth who is now Emperor of Annam, docile Vinh Tuy, whose reign is known as Bao Dai. is a dynasty scarcely 150 years old. The preceding dynasty was a figurehead for two powerful families. One of these was the family of Nguyen. With the aid of a French bishop...