Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Today to get a more scholarly, but equally palatable version of King John's reign the Vagabond will go to hear Professor Whitney in Emerson 211 at 12 o'clock...
Ingeniously the clothing trade, usually identified with Babbitry, is glorified by sophisticated treatment. An example is the story of the rise & fall of starched collars as reflected in the glorious reign and ignominious fate of the Arrow Collar Man -"a national idol who never lived." A chart showing the tumble of starched collar sales from 1919 (the advent of the soft shirt) is surrounded by colored reproductions of Artist Joseph Christian Leyen-decker's unbelievably handsome creation at critical stages of his career from the "merry Oldsmobiling" days of 1907 to the present. Captions tell the story...
...poetry. The world stared back down the alley of the 1790's shivering. Napoleon was squinting in the sunlight as the nations stacked their guns before him. A handsome Austrian with a hooked nose sat devising a system founded upon those grievances against which Robespierre had hurled a reign of terror. The past lay in the burying ground of dead ideas. The present was a battlefield. There was no future...
...reign of lusty King Henry VIII, England was in sorry plight. The State was pillaging the Church. The Enclosures had made weedy grazing land where once stood pleasant farms. Sir Thomas More cried out: "In England the sheep are eating...
...Unless this campaign has been an act of unbelievable stupidity, it is primarily an attempt to perpetuate the reign of terror that the Kansas City Star is determined to maintain. ... I can prove that the Star has deliberately colored the news, has misrepresented the facts, and has indulged in wilful, slanderous lies. If there is no way to correct this condition peacefully then I propose to use very heroic methods. . . . The acts of the Kansas City Star and/or expressed in the acts of Governor Woodring, are flagrantly lawless, and are a grave threat to the credit and prosperity...