Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...untranslatable title of All Men Are Brothers is Shui Hu Chuan-three words which mean "water," "margins," "novel." In the 13th Century, in the reign of Emperor Hung Chung, the Celestial Empire was disordered and seemed decayed. On a mountain set in a lake surrounded by marshes 108 men, fugitives from society, took refuge, set up a robbers' lair. Like Robin Hood's merry men they never ground down the faces of the poor but pillaged the rich and warred against unjust rulers. Readers will find this chronicle of their deeds and stratagems amazingly fresh, and once their...
...feared by Islam. When the crucial fight got under way King John, at the head of troops outnumbered five to one, literally hewed his way with his Polish sabre through the heart of the battle to the tent of the Grand Vizier. When he arrived there Turkey's reign as a great military power had reached a bloody...
...convince 'em, if you can, that the reign of good Queen Anne was culture's palmiest day," challenged Gilbert, and the Vagabond took up the gauntlet. It was first in the grotto at Twickenham that he sought the substance of culture, but a high-pitched voice reciting from a rapt bevy of matrons...
...attire was so disarranged by a jar of slops flung from an upper window that he betook himself instead to Vauxhall, and rested in a quiet corner of the garden, seeing but unseen. This morning he will ascertain the views of Professor Abbott on the culture of Anne's reign...
...Reign of Anne," Professor Abbott, Emerson...