Word: cle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaving his glowing cigar on a window ledge, escaped with the frightened maiden. When he had later trapped the diabolical Professor with more such nonchalant magic, it appeared that Sherlock would marry the girli, albeit he was a poor insurance risk, sustained in the approved fin de siècle manner by tobacco and the hypodermic needle...
Only one scandal disturbed the Royal homecoming. Crown Princess Astrid of the Belgians, Their Majesties' Swedish daughter-in-law, was flayed last week, by a fanatically Roman Catholic news organ, Le Vingtieme Siècle. Wrote its Priest-Editor: "A recent photograph of Her Royal Highness shows her seated, with the skirt somewhat above the knees. The radiant beauty of the Princess aroused sufficient admiration in itself without the addition of such a piece of trivial daring. The example coming from the throne, or even the steps of the throne, is the most substantial bar that can be opposed...
Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, is most picturesque of the four. Reared in that fin-de-siècle British atmosphere that supplied Margot, Viscountess Oxford & Asquith with long, pendent earrings, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde with a sunflower boutonnière and Winston S. Churchill with a paunch, Montagu Collet Norman affects a soft felt hat, bow necktie and a superbly pugnacious goatee. Like his contemporaneous compatriots his wit is keen, his thinking sharp, his knowledge authoritative. Born in 1871, he has been Governor of the Bank of England since...
...Florida débâcle of banks (TIME, July 12) spread last week like slithering protoplasm into adjacent neighborhoods, even beyond the bounds of the state, into Georgia. There more than four score banks also failed during the week...
Darius the Mede was not an exceptionally cruel man. He merely pandered to the tastes of his subjects who, effete with a fin-de-sičcle weariness, derived immense gratification from the spectacle of carnivorous animals at their meals. It is hard to think that so astute a monarch could have been vexed with the lion who succumbed to pity, shedding, it is said, small drops of woe when confronted with the lean and shivering Daniel. They only were cruel who jeered the gentle beast for his clemency...