Word: successors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commanders. Simultaneously, at Spa (Belgium), Fildmarschall von Hindenburg sought Wilhelm II, "By the Grace of God, King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany, Supreme War Lord." The Feldmarschall declared: "Your Majesty, that must be said which I cannot, as a loyal Prussian, say to my King." General Groner (successor to Ludendorff) responded to a curt inquiring nod from the Kaiser: "Sire, the Army will march home in peace and order under its own generals, but not under the command of your Majesty...
Long president of Colombia, Bolivar wrote the first Bolivian constitution, giving its president a life term and the right of appointing his own successor. Often accused, even by his friend and colleague Santander, of desiring absolute power for himself, he was sustained in perpetual office until his death (1830, aged 47) by the votes of his countrymen. He lavished nine-tenths of a fortune enormous for its day upon Latin American liberty, encouraged nationalism, arts, science. Few cities from Chile to Mexico are without his statue...
...lecture platform. The reader will readily observe that the artist, too, enjoyed his work in depicting the nether regions. Despite the trace of bitterness always in evidence in an undergraduate's opinion of his intellectual antennae at the season of the finals, the epic is a worthy successor of the now famous Italian's Comedy to be found on the reading lists for Modern Authors Examinations...
...choice of Haggerty as the successor of Captain W. L. Tibbetts '26 means that for the second straight season the Crimson track squad will be captained by a stellar distance runner. The newly elected leader graduated from Boston Latin High School, and before entering Harvard starred chiefly as a middle distance man. As a Freshman, Haggerty returned a double winner against both Yale and Princeton first-year teams in the mile and half mile runs. Against the Exeter schoolboy squad however, he was defeated at the half-mile distance by his present teammate, A. H. O'Neil...
...Harvard Mother Goose," as a parody of Harvard life, is a successor of "Rollo at Cambridge," published many years ago, and the remarkable "Alico in Cambridge", which was written...