Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ignored all stories of Jewish oppression, but the promptness and violence of world protest seemed to take them by surprise. Handsome Adolf's invaluable assistant, Minister Without Portfolio Hermann Goring, summoned foreign correspondents to his apartment for an angry, hour-long speech to the effect that the Jewish reign of terror had not taken place -but that it would stop at once...
...grand conspiracy of circumstances has made such return almost imperative. Without beer, it is obvious that the tutorial system can never come to any real fruition. Dining hall conferences might take on a rich new aspect of reciprocal frankness and loquacity were the reign of iced cocoa to be challenged. For the tutorial system was transplanted from its lush native environment into an unfamiliar desert where it has been cruelly desiccated and may soon be destroyed...
Wags were quick to point out that the cinema owner ought to have been beheaded. For his crime the Act invoked last week provides Death by the axe. It was passed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth especially to cause the beheading of such troublesome Scottish flag-flyers as Mary Queen of Scots. No fool, the young Duke of Norfolk knew better last week than to order, "Off with his head...
William Paterson returned to England, tried in vain to interest the merchants of James II's reign in a company to establish a colony on Darien. Hamburg, Amsterdam and Berlin also rejected him. While trying to find backers, he organized the Bank of England (1694), soon fought with fellow directors, resigned, went to Scotland...
...with a bored condescension, were once the laureates of a period or a nation, whose fame was certain. Nearly every poet we admire today had rivals who overpeered him in his own lifetime. Today even their names are forgotten. Who was the author of "Mucedorus"? In Elizabeth's reign that invertebrate play was the delight of the groundlings who clamored also for "Faustus" and the tragedy of Lear; it could not be staged too often. "Mucedorus" was reprinted twenty times, and was even attributed, by some master of irony, some unhonored Voltaire, (also, alas! unknown) to Shakespeare. But perhaps...