Word: devotedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The money destined for a Court fete was expended in toto to relieve the widespread misery caused by the recent disastrous floods (TIME, Jan. 11, INTERNATIONAL). The Queen's almost fanatically devoted subjects were roused from their usual respectful but undemonstrative attitude. Whenever Queen Wilhelmina rode out last week she...
II) was accomplished, he being three, she five. François de Valois shy, timid, bilious weakling, married her at Notre Dame when she was 16. Brantôme says she was more beautiful than a goddess. Ronsard du Bellay and De Maisonfleur wrote poems for her, over which she wept. She...
I was amazed to note that TIME had devoted two columns of the Feb. 1 issue (p. 19) to the "organization"of some sort of anti-evolution society in this town. The man, Edward Young Clarke, who has been found only after a search from "coast to coast and from...
The prohibition question became involved again in its continual melee by an unexpected turn of events. The Church Temperance Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church, an organization of many years' standing, devoted first to temperance and then to prohibition, last week decided to throw over prohibition and return to temperanceroclaimed...
W. W. Inglis, leader of the operators: "Not only our own ingenuity but the thought of scores of earnest men have been devoted in recent weeks to devising some formula that would meet Mr. Lewis' demands. We thought we had done this in the proposals submitted today. Many others outside...