Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judge the magnitude, the enormity, of what Prince Franz has done. Before the War the anointed Hapsburg Emperors of Austria and Kings of Hungary (erstwhile Holy Roman Emperors) always prized and esteemed the House of Liechtenstein as one of the two or three in Europe of a lineage almost as pure and exalted as their own. Princesses of Liechtenstein had at least an even chance of espousing archdukes of Austria. Last week members of the few aristocratic families left in Vaduz, capital of Liechtenstein, wished that they could refuse to believe their eyes and ears as they saw Prince Franz...
Writes Dr. Sunderland: "Seemingly Kipling's association in India with the English must have been almost exclusively with the military men and with the most imperialistic and domineering of the civil officials. As to India itself, the real India, the great India of the past and the present, with its history and its civilization, he seems to have cared nothing for this, and to have taken no pains to inform himself about it. As to the Indian people, he seems never to have cared to associate or to become acquainted with any but the lowest. Unless we make these...
...Capt. Yves Thomas as Captain of the French Liner Paris. Last week, as New-Capt. Pugnet was preparing to make his first westward voyage as her Captain, the Paris mysteriously caught fire at her berth at Havre. Rugs were spoiled, handsomely furnished first-class cabins charred, the grand staircase almost demolished. One thousand U. S. tourists were forced to search frantically for other passage. The accident was the Paris's third in the last 18 months...
...Almost nonchalantly it heaved its proud silver beauty to the first pale rays of the pastel dawn, sunning the gleaming breast with almost birdlike coquetry...
Second Day. Over the grubby villages of Western Russia, onward over the forests in the East moved the fabulous grey shape. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, Hearst explorer-correspondent reported: "Astonished people rushed to the streets in night attire and, scared and frightened, I judge, almost out of their wits, just as quickly rushed back to their homes." The Graf Zeppelin crossed the Ural Mountains and then was in Asia...