Word: xii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Home-stayer on the one hand, and by the bold affronter of the new on the other; that is, by the citizen and the adventurer." Upon this somewhat labored proposition Author Bolitho presents, en brochette, the characters of Alexander the Great, Catiline, Mahomet, Columbus, Cagliostro and Seraphina, Casanova, Charles XII of Sweden, Lola Montez, Napoleon I and III, Isadora Duncan and Woodrow Wilson...
...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...
...XII. The last days of the poet. Character and destiny of his work...
Following up this line later in the week, British Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson made a concrete proposal: that Articles XII and XV of the League Covenant?which envision recourse to arms among member states in certain circumstances?be amended into harmony with the Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war and strengthened to give the League Council greater war-scotching potency...
...them out with a ukase. Fancying a lowly laundress whom soldiers called Katinka, he made her the Tsarina Catherine I. He decreed a new calendar. With knowledge won by toiling incognito as a shipwright in Holland he built Russia's first effective navy. On land he defeated Charles XII of Sweden, most potent warrior of the age, at blood-drenched Pultava. But Peter I was a moody, discontented man. "Whose son am I?" he roared one day from the Throne. "Yours, Tihon Streshnief ? Speak or I will have you strangled...