Word: contentedness
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This was in the Elegant Eighties. A decade passed, and another young man, walking down the same aisle, awakened even gentler, more contented rustlings. For while a church is properly proud of a Good Young Man, no bounds are set to its love of a Good Young Man who is...
"So that in the United States Catholics were to be Ishmaelites. They were not to be heirs of the fine things to which Protestants might rightly reach-rather they were to be the contented stepchildren that should be satisfied with the crumbs that fell across from their master's...
In the Elysee Palace a small golden clock tinkled ten. Jovial, florid Gaston Doumergue was settling contentedly to the digestion of his late presidential dinner. From the clock a low, rapid tik-tik-tik. From the President of France a contented, sleepy sigh. Felicity! Then a door yawned and in...
Finally came the grand, the fascinating, fiasco of Versailles, brilliant as so often before with the greatest figures of the day. Most brilliant was Wilson, the man of vision; House his man of execution-for in most things the two worked as one, supplementing each other. True, House did not...
Perhaps a cartoonist can defeat a college. The Yale game may see the names of Harvard and Ophelia joined against the more characteristic symbol of New Haven. But if Ophelia makes a second appearance at the Dartmouth game it will be on account of a misunderstanding between her manager and...