Word: findings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meantime, the King dies. In order that the story be up-to-date, the children find the Queen in mourning among the lilies of the Black Sea, which is not black, but blue. Here the American child takes leave of the Queen. The child awakens and recognizes its grandmother, to whom it tells its impressions of Rumania...
...Headmistress Spence died in 1922; but the School Alumnae Society still assists such as Madame Gatti-Casazza to find orphans...
Frances Alda (soprano, wife of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, czar of the Metropolitan Opera Company) has no children, wants some. Said she: "In a few months I shall ask Miss Spence of the Spence School [Manhattan] to find me two adorable babies. I do not believe in the heredity jinx. I ask only that the babies be intelligent and healthy. I'll want them, regardless of parentage or legitimacy...
...knows where, mysteriously named, a slave and a king, whose enemies defeated him. There is a rumor that Christophe with his own hands, at night, buried gold in the huge walls of his astonishing battlement; and there are holes in its masonry where men have tried to find the king's treasure...
Author Vestal finds Kit a bit tiresome. Readers will find Author Vestal tiresome for too much apologizing. Kit had courage, needs no excuses. Author Vestal also has an irritating habit of breaking into an Indian war cry, "Wagh...