Word: caroll
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week. Indomitable, they crossed by forced marches the high and snow-capped Hindu Kush, debouching at last upon the plain of Kabul. Throughout the week British army planes from India took off 20 white women from Kabul, mostly British and German, but including one honeymooning U. S. bride, Mrs. Carol Isaacson...
There was holly in the Rev. Mr. Holmes's church during Christmas week, and some special music on Sunday, but nothing in the way of a carol service. On Christmas Day, the church was dark...
Like tree and carol, from land to land Christmas custom and spirit have been carried through the centuries, whether by warriors, travellers, missionaries. Thus on this one greatest feast-day of the year the World...
...eyesight is happily improving under the care of specialists. Her elder brother, the late King Alexander of Greece, died of a monkey bite. Her eldest brother, George II of Greece, lives in cheerful banishment from his onetime kingdom, in England. Finally Princess Helen's divorced husband is M. Carol Caramain, the abdicated onetime Crown Prince of Rumania. Had he only been a faithful, proper husband the "Best Mother" would be today no princess but Queen of Rumania. Perhaps the enormity of that privation, which she has cheerfully borne, entitles Princess Helen to her big gold medal...
...over. It needs a supreme disregard of physical limitations and an indifference to the more material things of the world that only a few divinely gifted men retain after they have lost their ignorance of them. Dickens knew the secret when he wrote that spiritual epic "The Christmas Carol". Not many Bob Cratchits can quite forget the next rent bill even in the midst of the feast, and the faintest savor of the mundane changes the Olympian ambrosia to a mess of porridge that is only a little more appetising than the every-day fare...