Word: devotedness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Certain it is," declares Herr Ludwig, "that at 27 Prince Wilhelm lost his heart. ... [He had married at 22, took no mistresses.] Suppressed sentimentality needed a field for ardour, fancy yearned for an artistic friendship. . . . And he found it all in Count Philip Eulenburg, to whom he was most fervently...
Robert Bacon graduated with the class of 80 and from that time until his death in 1919 he led an active life, during which he held important government positions and devoted much of his time to the University.
The session was devoted chiefly to batting practice for the entire squad with a constantly changing combination of infielders behind the pitchers who served up balls for the batters.
"But if we are to yield to fashionable conventions, it seems to me that the theatres are as much devoted to public use as anything well can be. ... I am far from saying that I think this particular law a wise and rational provision. That is not my affair. But...
As it must to all wives, a measure of disillusionment came, last week, to Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, wife of the British Prime Minister. Her husband's rise to head the State may well have seemed to her, pious, devoted, the visible workings of the Higher Power. Tenderhearted, she learned...