Word: distant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...writer-folk. He is of Welsh-Irish ancestry, lives in St. Germain outside Paris, sends a regular column of comment to the London Daily Mail. He is an authoritative medievalist, a tireless scholar who disclaims his labors in his disdain for watery-veined pedants. He hates the "arty." His distant cousin is the more-famed Wyndham Lewis, vorticist, painter, novelist (Tarr), philosopher (Time and Western Man), a versatile, experimental da Vinci of the modern art world. Both are World War veterans, who combine literary enthusiasm with active lives...
...well as telegraph, to both Washington and New York. . . . Throngs of people, some important, some trying to look important, "confer" in standing groups of two, three, four. , . . Throngs of Mr. Good's assistants come, go, confer. One is named Hainer Hinshaw. The office believes he is a distant relative of the Nominee. . . . One of the department heads is Col. Hanford MacNider. who resigned last winter as Assistant Secretary of War and in June got mentioned for the Vice Presidency. Another (Oh. shrewd Mr. Good) is Farmer Lowden's good friend, James G. Oglesby...
...King Fuad of Egypt steamed out in his serene white yacht to meet T. R. H., as their steamer hove in to Alexandria. Even distant observers could discern His Majesty's obsequious nervousness. He is a British puppet and in constant danger of assassination by patriots of his own race. More, he is constantly anxious lest such patriots molest or assassinate British officials in Egypt. Therefore, though precautions to protect the English princes had been tripled and re-tripled, they were entertained principally upon His Majesty's yacht...
...time-honored rule of the Derby. He also bullied a Catholic priest into burying a Chinese-his brother's-woman. He also adopted a Spanish lady and married his exquisite sister to a gypsyman-and all to the pleasant rhythm of horse-racing, yarn-spinning, and the distant crash of waves...
Spectators, players alike tittered at Walter Hagen, who was working for a news syndicate. A few days before, Hagen started from Oshkosh, Wis., for Menomonie, Wis., drove instead to Menominee, Mich., 300 miles distant, failed to keep an exhibition match appointment, had to apologize by telephone for his stupid error...