Word: distrait
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Distrait, Mark appealed to his friend, but Robert's letters brought no solace-only the melancholy news that his own wife had left him, because forsooth he had been rude to an old hag of a spiritualist...
...year passes. Florence is within a few hours of maternity when a cable comes from Switzerland. Junior, at a fashionable school, is dying of typhoid fever. Walter, distrait, ignoring the living Florence and her unborn child, arranges for a quick trip to Switzerland. He leaves, but not before she has spoken her piece...
...symbolically-minded said it was practically foreordained that oft-rescued Claret should rescue the distrait Courtney. Impalpable ministers of safety and service hover about the master of the Minnewaska. To accomplish this feat of systematic searching the ship was diverted 341 miles from its track. The Atlantic Transport Company wirelessed the Captain, "You were fortunate to carry out rules of sea and save souls, no matter conditions." The plane was not saved...
...plays a fascinating and distrait Princess of a mythical European country who is by way of being temporarily bored with her Royal Family. She takes up with a matador and follows him to his castle in Spain. Royal husband arrives in time to break up the affair, in time to let the commuters catch the 11:15 for Dobbs Ferry...