Word: reign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...able to do, especially when one's auditors over failure. In an ecstasy of optimism one might take this game as an indication on return to an age of brilliant intellectualism, the rise of pootics and the decline of petting. To the calloused, however, who have successively witnessed the reign of crossword puzzles, Charleston and channel swimming, "Ask Me Another" means only a brief respite from insanity. For a few months Webster and the Britannica will be best sellers; but in the end the nation will remain untainted by the renaissance of learning. Thinking offers amusement for those who have...
Herr Fuchs concluded with a burring, guttural admonition: "To all for-r-reign artists I give this good advice. Br-r-ring your family tree to America, and be sure there is at least a bar-r-ronet up in the br-r-ranches...
...always ruled. The shoguns or tycoons ("high princes") ruled from 1603 to 1867; but the imperial family continued, technically, to reign...
...Whiffen's matronly daughter, Peggy. This, the highest paid assemblage ever seen on one legitimate stage, enacts for the fourth time in the U. S. (the first, 1898) the fortunes of those shockingly Bohemian actors and actresses who strutted in famed Sadler's "Wells" during the reign of good Queen Victoria. To the zip-gobbling audiences of this day, the play offers mellow humor and pathos-qualities whose commercial values are doubtful. To the student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny has created a young playwright-one whose...
Vagabonds have always been notoriously lazy folk; statute passed in England in the reign of Elizabeth provide compulsory employment for the peripatetic vagrants of the time, and dire punishments for those who refused to work. Today there are no such restrictions, and one who is at best a Student Vagabond may enjoy the priviliges of his order, especially during this unseasonable weather that makes his legs tingle for the hard road beneath them, and the joys of true vagabondage. So the explaining of the course of French socialism in the eighteenth century I shall, with true vagabondish carelessness, leave...