Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lavisse in his great Histoire de France says that "the principal cause of the ruin of royalty in France was the lack of a King...
...points per round, the winner of each round being allotted ten points and the loser in each round allotted any number below ten. It is interpreted that the total of points scored in the three rounds are then compared, and the contestant receiving the highest number of points is de- clared the winner. In the event that one judge gives the highest number of points to one contestant, and the other judge gives the highest number of points to the other contestant, there is disagreement between the judges...
...study of Leopardi which appeared last year. In this book she undertakes the study of one episode in the life of another Romantic poet, Byron, whom contemporaries regarded as the chief of all. To this day he enjoys a greater reputation on the Continent than even Wordsworth, as Senor de Madariaga was once gracious enough to remind...
...bringers of evil were folly, arrogance, stupidity, and the gambler's mania. The fates were not Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, daughters of Zeus. They were a select company whose names stood at the foot of government decrees, in the official calendars, in the diplomatic sections of the Almanack de Gotha, in the Army Lists, the world's Press lists, the general directories, the telephone directories, and the membership lists of the Académic, the Shakespeare societies, and the Goethe-Verein...
...plot: Isabelle, half-U. S., half-French, is a very beautiful, quite rich widow at 26. She has come to France to get away from haunting memories of her aviator husband, recently killed in a crash. Thanks to her French connections she meets aristocratic, smoothly handsome André de Verviers, and because his physical attraction is extreme, takes him as a lover-antidote. At the time her story opens she has discovered that as a person she dislikes him intensely but cannot get rid of him. What Isabelle wants is to marry Laurence, an impeccable Virginia gentleman who has gone...