Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the U. S. press had its biggest story since 1918, and what might be its last chance for a long time to cover as big a story in comparative freedom. If war came, censorship would reign over most of the British Isles and the Continent. Faced with this opportunity, the press covered everything it could find out about Europe's Seven Days as no story had ever been covered before...
...tipped by a rabbit's foot, the precentor line out the psalms and lead the singing with a pitch pipe. The sermon will be "The Doleful State of the Damned," which Samuel Moody first preached on August 21, 1710. He will pray that Queen Anne's reign continue happy and glorious, "that this place and all other places be not bothered by Indians during the coming week...
...fair-haired, fine-featured young Princess of Wales during George I's reign, Caroline was the first Hanoverian to become popular in England. She quickly realized what her new subjects wanted, and gave it to them. None of her successors has more gracefully gone the approved rounds of gardening, child-rearing, churchgoing, public appearances, patronage of the industries and arts. "This Princess," wrote the observant Voltaire, "was born to encourage...
...musketeers soon had him out again, gave Louis the mask and Philippe his name, girl and crown. The picture shows Philippe as something of a New Dealer, eager to abolish the salt tax and dress up the peasantry. But judging from the history of Louis XIV's reactionary reign (1643-1715), France never felt the difference, must have switched bottles without changing its Bourbon...
During her ensuing reign as amateur queen of the ice, Sonja Henie won the world's championship ten times running, an unequaled record. She also won the seven European championships she entered, and she won the last three Olympic Games of her amateur era. She became a national idol such as Norway had not worshipped since Ibsen. Above the iron bedstead in her chamber in her small Oslo apartment hung autographed pictures of Hitler and Mussolini. England's Queen Mary and King Edward VIII were her devoted fans. Norway's moosey King Haakon took to telegraphing...