Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would defend it? Launcelot came forward in the venerable person of George Saintsbury, to champion the cause of the first and fairest of the immortal trio, Wine, Woman, and Song. The victory went to the good cause, and Mr. Pussyfoot retired ignominiously to his American domain, there to reign supreme for 14 years. When finally his oppressive rule galled too much, and his subjects rose in wrath and expelled him, what more fitting than that Excalibur should be exhibited at the victory celebration...
Fortnight earlier Erskine Caldwell, Georgia-born author, who wrote Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, novels dealing with the mudsills of Georgia's white society, started the rumpus by writing an article for the Communist New Masses, relating much the same facts, charging that a reign of terror for Negroes was afoot, and adding...
...parcels worth over $5,000, a 50 per cent inheritance tax and a stiffly graduated income tax, the substitution of scrip for money, etc., are incidental to the main project, which Sinclair expects to work out with such rapidity that after two years the historian of his reign will write, "The Governor made a last speech over the radio, saying that he had caused a thorough investigation to be made throughout the State of California, and that the only poor person he had been able to find was a religious hermit who lived in a cave. Therefore he considered...
...Robert E. Lee, and picked the original acreage is one of the epics of U. S. ranching. The Atwoods to the contrary, the ranch is flourishing mightily today under the dictatorship of good-looking Robert II, a 37-year-old ruler of vast energy. In his eight years' reign he has spent some $2,000,000 on such improvements as building 1,000 miles of new fences, grubbing 15,000 acres clear of mesquite and chaparral to plant them with Rhodes grass from Africa. He is proudest of his new breed of cattle, the Santa Gertrudis, achieved after many...
...Said the Evening Standard: FINAL U. S. STATE VOTE ENDS REIGN OF GANGS...