Word: dreadfulness
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...offices at No. 39 Broadway Mr. Lederer has a street-level office, walls hung with pictures of famous liners which have flown the blue, white and yellow "Hapag" flag. He speaks with an accent which becomes marked when he gets excited. This is apt to be frequent and employes dread "E. L.'s" wrath although they know it is always justified. Legend is the story that one day he overheard a prominent Manhattan lady arguing about rates. After listening awhile he rushed up and bellowed: "Veil, do you want to buy the ship?" Startled, she mended her behavior, booked...
...improve him so that she can love him even more. To teach him hospitality she invites Cousin Anna, against his protest, to their home. Anna's free-&-easy behavior soon makes Lucy forget her dreams of hospitality. She dreams of her husband's possible infidelity instead. Her perverse dread alienates him. When Lucy drives Anna from the house he goes with her. In the ensuing pursuit he is drowned...
Everything goes well until Josiah, the old Negro who pimps for her, gets blood poisoning. Rather than send him to the free U. S. hospital, which the Negroes dread, Cherie gives up all her savings to have him treated privately. Josiah dies, and her hopes of seeing France wither. But there is still one hope in Tsamatsui. a Japanese merchant, whose last agent for Canal espionage has been shot. He offers her $200 for a few observations. Cherie makes them. Unfortunately a German agent, Staub, to whom she once gave her love for a few postcards of France...
...cluding Archbishop-Coadjutor Georges Gauthier of Montreal, Monsignor Andrea Cassulo, Apostolic Delegate to Canada, Archbishop-Designate Jean Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve of Quebec who is likely to be Canada's next Cardinal. Said Bishop Georges Courchesne of Rimouski in the consecration sermon: "Your courage, Monsignor Turquetil, in overcoming the dread of a discouraging solitude and white silence of the North is explained by your ardent desire to serve God, convert pagans to Catholicism and increase the ranks of the Catholic population...
...benefit by being assured of admission to college a full year in advance." So saying, Dartmouth last week accepted for admission next autumn 20 pre-freshmen, giving them to understand that in their last school year they were free to follow their own scholastic interests instead of cramming for dread College Board examinations. Thus, also, was Dartmouth somewhat assured that at least 20 promising Dartmouth men would not change their minds and go off with classmates to some other college...