Word: better
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer is suggested by an engagement ring still worn by Mile. Vacarescu, now an aged spinster. The ring was given her by Ferdinand in the '80s, when he was but a prince and she was the favorite lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth of Rumania, better known by her pen name, "Carmen Silva." Queen Elizabeth, sympathizing with the lovers, permitted them to be constantly together. When news of this came to strict, arbitrary King Carol of Rumania, he broke off the affair by the ruthless step of banishing Mile. Vacarescu from Rumania, and later sending Queen Elizabeth into...
...team takes the field. He is Capt. C. T. I. Roark, an Irishman, connected with the British Army in India merely by reason of his membership in the reserve corps. Captain Atkinson and Manager Tomkinson must decide before September, when the matches are scheduled, whether the team works better as a unit when composed of four men who have played through a whole year together, or when aided by the comparatively strange but acknowledgedly brilliant Captain Roark. Their decision will in measure hang upon the opinion and advice of H. H. the Maharajah of Rutlam, himself a keen, able player...
...hunting accident, Rose does not let the fact that she was per-haps a little to blame for the mishap interfere with a pure but clandestine love affair with Francis. Henrietta, Rose's pert niece, also likes Francis, but finds after experimenting with him that she likes Charles Batty better. So, when Sales' wife dies, Rose marries him and Henrietta goes Batty...
...regard the quartocento and quintocento painters with the same veneration that philosophers accord Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and poets, Homer, Sophocles, Virgil. It was of great moment to them, therefore, when Sir Joseph Duveen, art dealer of England, announced purchase for $3,000,000 of the famed Benson collection, which, better than any other private collection extant, traces the history and spirit of early painting in Italy. Robert H. Benson is head of a potent, English banking house which bears his name. With the assistance of his wife, who is related to the late Sir George Lindsay Holford, another owner...
...that she was an unusual little girl. When, in school, "we were given the choice of three subjects for com position: 'The Autobiography of a Weathercock,' 'A Day in the Country,' and 'What I would do with Five Pounds.' I thought them much better subjects than usual, and immediately felt ideas pouring into my head for 'The Weathercock.' Yes, there he was on the church tower ... up in the wind . . . Jenny sat beside me biting her pen and looking cross and unhappy. ... The bell rang. 'Oh teacher . . i.!' 'Still...