Word: vii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power of Money, and its use in buying men, the importance of the single personal command, the importance of time." He was the biggest big executive of his day, a man who spent his life bringing order on a large scale out of colossal chaos. Louis' father, Charles VII, had been that weak-kneed Dauphin whom Joan of Arc crowned. Charles turned out better as a king than he had been as a Dauphin; but when his impatient son Louis (he led two rebellions against his father) came to the throne, at 38, he found France still disunited, Paris...
...popes: Pius VII (1800-23), Leo XII (1823-29), Pius VIII (1829-30), Gregory XVI (1831-46), Pius IX (1846-78), Leo XIII (1878-1903), Pius X (1903-14), Benedict XV (1914-22), Pius...
...suppose it is natural that my English friends generally, from the King [Edward VII] down, should think I was under the influence of the Kaiser [Wilhelm II], but you ought to know better, old man. There is much that I admire about the Kaiser . . . [but] he himself is altogether too jumpy, too volatile in his policies, too lacking in the power of continuous and sustained thought and action for me to feel that he is in any way such a man as, for instance, Taft or Root. You might as well talk of my being under the influence of Bryan...
...VII. Euripide and Racine: Iphigenie en Aulide...
...influence of morals and manners on the fortunes of musical and theatrical folk. Jenny Lind owed her popularity as much to her reputation for spotlessness as to her nightingale voice. But Lily Langtry, the Jersey beauty, was just as successful despite her intimacies, which every one knew, with Edward VII and others. Moral protests arise where least expected. Last week in England Soprano Florence Austral, 35, was banned from the Three Choirs Festival* to be held in Worcester Cathedral because her past included a divorce case. The objections came publicly from the Very Reverend William Moore Ede, dean of Worcester...