Word: ango
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coming of another Oxford-Cambridge track team to meet the combined forces of Harvard and Yale in July is a welcome event not only for the track enthusiast but as much for all Americans who see in interrrelationships of this nature an important aid to the cementing of Ango-American friendship...
...make him an anniversary gift. When M. Barthou unwrapped his package, the "surprise" of M. Poincare was tact itself. The gift was typically French, a book. Only a connoisseur would have recognized the excessive rarity of this copy of Ilsee Princesse de Tripoli by Robert de la Motte-Ango, Marquis de Flers, with hand lithographed illustrations signed by Mutcha, and a superb binding by the great Charles Meunier. On the fly leaf was written...
Twenty years later we find this man occupying an important military position and mingling with society. He is about to ally himself with a prominent family by marrying Miss Diana Oughterson, when a great obstacle appears in the form of Blacky II, Ango's illegitimate daughter...
Diana, however, is still willing to marry Ango, if he will send Blacky to live with her aunt in Canada; but he must choose between the two. After much deliberation he refuses to part with his daughter and resolves 'to do the thing he cannot explain, because he knows it's right...
...Ango then accepts the captaincy of a tramp steamer and, accompanied by his daughter, goes to Southampton, its port of departure. While there, he visits the room in the Reindeer Hotel, where he said goodby to Blacky I twenty years before. He plays the old music box, which she was so fond of, and pays old George five pounds, the result of a bet that Ango would never return to Southampton. A few minutes after he leaves the hotel, the audience hears the steamship whistle and knows that Waverly Ango is aboard, atoning for his past indiscretions by sailing straighter...