Word: englishwoman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo's Fouad I University, Egypt's revolution was merely preposterous. Its romantic absurdity is represented by one Lieut. Mahmoud Yehia, an idealistic young hero of the Palestine war who wants first of all to see his wicked king dethroned and punished, and second to marry an Englishwoman. Nothing will so much prove the glory of the new Egypt and heal the wounds of his former "wog" status as marriage to Elaine Brent, a visiting newshen of the London Sun. Yehia earnestly consults a young Englishman as to the mysterious ceremonials by which English ladies are courted...
...these words, the Imamate of the Ismailis passed over the heads of the Aga's playboy son Aly and his younger brother Sadruddin and landed on the shoulders of a sobersided young Harvard-man named Karim Khan, Prince Aly's eldest son by his first wife (an Englishwoman previously married to one of the wealthy brewery baron Guinesses...
When not in college, Kay (as he is called at Harvard) lives in London's Eaton Square with his mother, the former Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller, who, according to the late Aga, is an "Englishwoman of beauty, charm, wit and breeding." From there last week he hurried to Switzerland to his dying grandfather's bedside. Tense and nervous after the announcement of his succession, he took his seat on a white satin throne to receive a delegation of Moslem dignitaries from India, Pakistan, Singapore and East Africa. "My religious duties," he said, "start as of today...
Thirty-three years ago a young Englishwoman asked to do graduate study in astronomy at Harvard. The Chairman of the Physics Department, of which astronomy was then a sub-division, was reluctant to admit her, saying he didn't want any women in his department. "But after all," the now middle-aged mother of three explains, "I had come all the way from England and they couldn't just send me home...
...life is not to get bored to death, so they wander feebly to Spain and France, their pockets full of Merz money, their lives empty of solid interests. When Melanie dies (of tubercular tedium), Julius leaves their daughter to be raised by the kindly Merzes, and marries an Englishwoman who is kind to his pets. The stalemated wanderings begin again: soon the cosmopolitan millpond is covered with the crisscrossing tracks of society's idle, discontented water beetles. The never-changing House of Merz is the center and paymaster, and so long as it stands, all Europe plays upon...