Word: choicestance
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...only horse cavalry but some of the Empire's choicest and most picturesque infantrymen were also ordered mechanized, including a battalion each from the famed Coldstream Guards, the Grenadier Guards, the Scots Guards, the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and the Prince of Wales's Own West Yorkshire Regiment...
...choicest plum for a U. S. art student who is unmarried and not over 30 is the Prix de Rome. It gives the winner two idyllic years at the American Academy in Rome, is worth about $4,000. In 1912 one of the winners was Eugene Francis Savage, a graduate of Gonzaga College in Washington, D. C., who painted "sanitary," hard-profiled. Italianate pictures. They showed just what the Prix de Rome conditions asked for: "A keen understanding of the qualities which give to the classics . . . their universal appeal, of the technical methods by which those qualities were secured...
Showering her choicest honors on a beaming, bewildered Chinese last week. Dai Nippon or Great Japan asked in effect, "What have you got to have that I haven't got to give...
...Josiah Quincy paid his sixpence in 1821 to shoot at a turkey, the same stately Josiah Quincy who made the parting senior, having the customary cake and wine at Wadsworth House with his president, feel as though he had drunk "with Prince Metternich at Johannesberg a bottle of his choicest vintage." There on the Delta the Freshmen and Sophomores held their annual football game, with the upper classes ranged on the stone posts and square-sharp rails of the fence, lightly chatting with demure sisters and belles from Boston as they watched the combatants work out a mutual destiny...
...scuffle with the defenders of that most unaccountable of God's creatures, the Boston debutante. And of course his eloquence has been vain in the face of adamantine prejudice. The Vagabond, however, would not have his wisdom lost to humanity and he here sets down for the Ages the choicest of his thoughts...