Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Today -100: October 21, 1925: Of solemn pledges, a return to Shakespeare’s time, and his and her impeachments


Hungary starts censoring crossword puzzles after one in a royalist newspaper has the solution “Long Live Otto” (the 12-year-old Habsburg pretender to the throne).

Headline of the Day -100:


Their restraint in not snickering shows great self-control.

The Japanese government is worried that the disorder in China may lead to another Russo-Japanese war, since it’s endangering the territorial gains Japan made in China in the first war.

That Catholic Church in Linz, Austria decrees that plays produced by Catholic societies must be male-only.

There is talk in Texas of impeaching Gov. Miriam “Ma” Ferguson because her husband, former impeached governor James Ferguson, has been doing more and more of her job, especially handing out highway contracts.

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