Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peacock Throne." The only object of Persian art at all familiar to average occidentals is the famed throne upon which sit Persia's Shahs. And this came from India, not Persia. Built in the reign of Shah Jahan (1627-58) in India's "golden age of architecture," it appeared in Persia after the sack of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1738. Designer is thought to have been Ustad Isa, reputed creator of the Taj Mahal. Before it was stripped of most of its appurtenances, silver steps led up to the throne proper, a peacock tail canopy overspread...
...30th anniversary of King Vittorio Emanuele's reign, celebrated last week at Rome, and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini's 47th birthday, enthusiastically observed at Milan, was chosen by the Italian Cabinet as the day on which to announce its appropriation toward rebuilding the houses demolished fortnight ago when temblors cracked Italy's ankle from Naples to Bari (TIME, Aug. 4). One hundred million lire ($5,260,000) was set aside for the erection of several hundred "anti-seismic"* houses in the devastated region, for destroying uninhabitable dwellings, for shoring up those which are salvageable...
...Never since the reign of Charles II [1660-85] have we been rendered so dependent on the good will of foreign nations...
...flower beds sharpen the contrast to the former natural wilderness of the scene. Across the road the iron sword of Siegfried. Nothung, no longer flaunts its misinterpretation of a Wagnerian passage, placed there in Wartime. Sword and inscription have been removed. At the Villa Wahnfried, the end of the reign of the inexorable Cosima is signalized by flowers on the window ledge, the removal of iron bars from the windows. A brood of ducks quacks unmusically in a new and ornate marble pond...
...reign of Edward I (1239-1307), disputes involving the ownership of birds in trees or the right to build a structure which jutted over the edge of a neighbor's land, were settled by the maxim: Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum (He who owns the soil, owns above...