Word: adrian
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...sister from the constant but never recognized warfare between her father and mother. Francis pretends not to notice, Priscilla becomes a terrified invert, Matey says nothing but notices everything. When her father dies, Matey goes to Rustdorf, sleepy Hudson River town, to collect a legacy, meets her distant cousin Adrian, marries him and settles down. But both have lived in France ; when the War comes, both feel a duty to help. They take their children abroad, Adrian drives an ambulance, Matey helps her old friends. When they finally get home again to Rustdorf, middle age has nearly got them...
...Adrian Doyle, later: "The spirit message answers all the tests which my father and mother had agreed upon before his passing. I can only agree with mother that the message is of so intimate a character it cannot be made public even to our closest friends...
...wicked, he believed, there is no Hell, only centuries of waiting "in a grey drab room." According to Sir Arthur's tenets his soul remained in abeyance, earthbound and neuter, for three days. By now it has been admitted to the full sybaritism of "summerland." Declared his son Adrian: "There is no question that my father will speak to us just as he did before he passed over. . . . My [parents] were devoted to each other at all times. . . . His last words were to her. He simply smiled up at her and said: 'You are wonderful...
...after the U. S. President). Edward of Wales, attending another London banquet of last week, at the Carlton Club in honor of this year's Walter Hines Page Fellows (Robert Paine Scripps of Scripps-Howard Newspapers, Editor Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution, Publisher Stuart Hoffman Perry of the Adrian [Mich.] Telegram), had a good time but made no speech...
Second Secretary Adrian Holman of the British Embassy. The Dauphin François of France, son of King Henry II and Queen Catherine de Medicis...