Word: reigns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Races," wrote Queen Victoria to her gadabout son Edward, "have become so bad of late, and the connection with them has ruined so many young men." In her reign the royal stables were no great shakes, but Victoria did keep her house in order. Last week over her birthday (May 24) the good Queen would have been horrified to see her respectable great-grandson George filling his pockets with race-track winnings (see above) while his household went...
...practice spread to England when German miners were imported to Cornwall during the reign of good Queen Bess. Some religious authorities condemned it as fraud or dealing with the devil. Others gave it clerical approval. From England, it emigrated to the U.S., where it is still going strong, with most of the emphasis on water-finding. Modern, up-to-date dowsers often abandon the hallowed forked stick for an elaborate gadget pretending to use some scientific phenomenon, such as radioactivity or radar. That is dowsing just the same...
...ecstasy and that the Lord speaks to and through him; 2) Holiness, believing that absolute purity is possible for the Saved upon earth, and distinguishing sharply between the small sect of the Saved and the world (Babylon); 3) Millenarian, looking for the imminent Second Coming, Armageddon, the thousand-years reign and the end of the world...
...here to stay, last week warned the industry that many listeners might not be. In a 140-page report, FCC told radio that bad programs were losing devotees by droves. Radio's most common and obvious faults: soap operas, too many commercials, allowing the sponsor to have free reign...
Most of them do not. Explains an old (Scotsman who guides Lewis as Virgil and St. Bernard guided Dante: "Milton was right. The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery. ... It has a hundred fine names-Achilles' wrath and Coriolanus' grandeur, Revenge and Injured Merit and Self-Respect and Tragic Greatness and Proper Pride...