Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Lions went up to Hanover last week their supporters sang "Hail Columbia", but it turned out to be the reign of Dartmouth...
Abroad, the scene was idyllic. Edward VII of England, with two more years to reign, visited his nephew, Nicholas II of Russia, at Reval. Wilhelm of Germany, busy building warships, warmly welcomed Dr. David Jayne Hill, the new U. S. Ambassador. He explained his growing Navy as follows: "Every German warship launched is one more guarantee for peace on earth...
Female bandits like Two-Gun Tittle and Kangaroo Kate conduct a reign of terror in Greenwich Village whilst a more charming female looks into the murder of her revivalist uncle...
...palaces at Versailles are reminiscent of glittering splendor and jewelled magnificence during the Sun King's reign. But Mr. Forester points out that the palaces were drafty and uncomfortable; the magnificence fatuous, futile, and unjustly extracted from a suffering people...
...travel-ing when he was Crown Prince, to India, to China, to Japan and home around Africa, with a momentous visit to Mother Congo. Memories of Congoland germinated in the shrewd brain of Uncle Leopold and flowered when he became King. The master move of his long and wily reign was to call the International Conference of 1876 at Brussels, where he piously proposed to the Great Powers a program for "civilizing" the Congo and suppressing slavery there. The expense of these good works was to be generously defrayed from His Majesty's privy purse. Not until a generation...