Word: clan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner of the entrance was entirely Millerandian. As President of a newly-formed National Republican League, successor to the Bloc National, whose birthplace was the Ba-ta-clan* and whose epitaph was written in the May elections, M. Millerand, backed by 13 of his faithful henchmen, stood not on the order of his coming. In language, pointed and strong, he denounced the Herriot Government in a carefully prepared manifesto. He objected...
...Brownies were always up to something. They went to school, they visited the zoo, they disported themselves in gymnasiums, they travelled. The only rule of their clan was that nothing could ever be repeated. Once they became stranded on an island far from shore. They could not get off by building a boat because they had done that before, and the rule was not to be broken. How were they to escape ? Innumerable American children sorrowed; nurses worried; mothers wrote, letters to Mr. Cox. At last he thought of a way to save them; birds flew over from the mainland...
Another section of the "will" is a bequest made to Mme. Rasimi (well-known Parisienne entrepreneuse and directress of the Ba-ta-Clan Theatre, where Millerand once delivered a famed address) of "a republic entirely done over and entirely renovated and a demolished National Bloc, all of which is to be used as accessories for a new comedy which is destined to change the Ba-ta-Clan into a Washout Palace...
Ahmed Zogu comes from the Mati clan. He was popularly thought of as being "energetic, educated, wealthy, severe." This was before he attempted to have a Constitution drafted by the Diet. After that, he became known as.an "ignorant despot" and was accused of favoring his tribe...
...Manhattans exile any more fortunate in genealogical tree-lore than in word-hunting. He has taken in vain the name of an active, numerous and prosperous Bay State clan, a worthy example of middle-class virtues, but in the Massachusetts sense of "family" still painfully "new," and without the indispensable seventeenth century grace and conservation. The myth of Caroline purple has doubtless been strengthened by certain famous verses, excellent in themselves, but deplorable false to fact and record Perhaps our. New York at Cambridge deserves indigence for falling into popular, a "vulgar, error." Perhaps the Cabot trust insensible increased this...