Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Reign," by K. Durland...
...nave of Westminster Abbey, said Professor Baker, was used during the reign of Elizabeth as a great social promenade, even while church services were being held in another part. Here was another place where Shakespeare's keen observation found room for free play. Close by the side of the church was the Convocation House, in the yard of which St. Paul's choirboys acted their plays. Another theatrical centre was St. John's Gate, where the properties for the court plays were kept, and where the playwrights gathered. Lastly, the Great Exchange, the business centre for all merchants, gave ample...
...Baker has contributed to English and American magazines many articles on the economic questions of the day, notably in reference to the labor difficulties involved in the great Chicago strike of 1893 and those of the meat packing industries. He is the author of "The Labor Boss," and "The Reign of Lawlessness...
...Sumichrast last night gave the last of his four illustrated public lectures on "Versailles," discussing as his special subject "The Passing of the Splendour." The lecturer most interestingly the important political events leading up to the death of Louis XV, the moral deterioration of the court during that reign, and the complications responsible for the growing aversion to the innocent and once popular Marie Antoinette. The comparatively simple court life enforced during the last days of Louis XIV, was followed, said Professor Sumichrast, by a natural reaction. During the period of social pomposity and court revelries in the following reign...
...lecturer began by describing the royal residences in Paris at the opening of the reign of Louis XIV, dwelling more particularly on the Louvre, then in a state of transition, and wholly insufficient for the needs of the king and his ever-growing court. He pointed out that the palace of Versailles, as it exists at the present day, is the outcome of successive transformations and additions, the first royal residence on the site having been the hunting-lodge erected by Louis XIII. This was added to by his son, who used it for a similar purpose...