Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bitter, perhaps, to Queen Elena is the thought that if her kin ever reign again, in Montenegro, it will be through the doing of a one-time hod-carrier, Benito Mussolini, and not due to any potency of her consort, King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy. Still less has Queen Elena herself been able to exert any real pressure on events in the kingdom of her father. In a word, she is respected but not admired, adored or heeded by Italians. She came, serious-minded, from her dark Balkan mountains, and the grandeur that was or is Rome has not quickened...
...Imperial father had always near his heart a reign of right and justice, and made it his constant aim to follow and brighten the path laid by his predecessor. . . . He has now passed away amidst our unbounded grief and sorrow. . . . Mournful and heavyhearted, we have now succeeded, to the Imperial line. With our limited gifts, we are mindful of the difficulty of proving ourselves equal to the great task devolved upon...
...Ancient Mariner" shared in some degree the modern schoolboy's dislike for the Latin language, for we find inscribed on the fly leaf: "Heaven forbid! This work should not exist in its present form and language! Yet I cannot avoid the wish that it had been, during the reign of James the first, moulded into an heroic poem in English Octava Rima...
...Europe the marriage was momentous. The Tsarinas of Russia had been German since Catharine II (1762-1796). But the Empress Marie avowedly hated Germany and the Germans, and her sister was Alexandra of Britain. It was in the reign of the Empress Marie that the alienation of Moscow from Berlin became as marked as its rapprochement with London...
...later Royal and Imperial House of Habsburg took its name almost 1,000 years ago. Once Holy Roman Emperors, at various later periods Emperors of Austria, Kings of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Spain and finally Emperors of Austria-Hungary, this potent family reached its apogee during the 68-year reign of the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary (born 1830, ascended 1848, died 1916). Last week the Hungarian press blazed with rumors that a kinsman of the "Grand Old Emperor" may soon rule as King of Hungary and later become King of Rumania as well. Thus the Dual Empire...