Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite true to say that New York simply loved him. But New York was certainly impressed by Ellis Arnall. He had retired from Georgia's governor ship, amid glory and catcalls, leaving Herman Talmadge, the man he called The Pretender, to exercise an uncertain reign. What were Mr. Arnall's plans now? He planned to stump the 48 states with a message for the nation. Why all 48? "I find so many delightful people every where," declaimed the little ex-governor of Georgia. "I find it a good idea to meet them...
...mainly the work of 77-year-old Monsignor Angelo Mercati, Prefect of the Vatican Archives, who began looking into the papal roster during the reign of the present Pontiff's predecessor, Pius XI. Two centuries ago, Giovanni Marangoni, custodian of the Roman catacombs, made up a list of popes based largely on a series of dated papal portraits on the walls of the famed Roman church, St. Paul's Outside the Walls. Scholars had known that the old list was inaccurate, but it took Monsignor Mercati's diligent digging to discover how inaccurate it was. This week...
Seldom in the past have the two elevens entered their climactic struggle with such excellent past performances. The Crimson squad has amassed the best record of any team coached by Dick Harlow in his ten-year reign at Harvard, with seven victories in eight games, while Coach Howie Odell's Bulldogs, regarded as one of the outstanding college elevens in the East, have won six contests, with a 28 to 20 loss to Columbia and a 6 to 5 tie with Cornell the only damaging marks on the record...
During the past two years, Managing Editor Michael Straight of the New Republic has attempted to make of the magazine he inherited from his father something more than the bone-dry receptacle of warmed-over liberal thought it had become after Herbert Croly's brilliant reign. The announcement that on December 1 Henry Wallace will assume the newly created post of Editor constitutes the most important single event in the renascence of the New Republic...
...hungry peasants, I have the honor to inform you that the peasants will pay nothing. They will give you one-fifth of the crop and keep the remainder as the just reward of the sweat they pour out to build a new Italy where Justice, not kings, shall reign. I am, sir, your most obedient servant...