Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most jovial?Secretary Good...
Best sitters?Secretaries Lamont and Good...
...travelers will be Daughter Roberta Starr Semple, 18, and Son Rolph McPherson, 16. The itinerary will include a visit to the Oberammergau Passion Play in Germany, will reach its climax in the Garden of Gethsemane on Jerusalem's outskirts. From twilight on Holy Thursday to twilight on Good Friday, Evangelist McPhers/on will conduct services. In the River Jordan she will supervise the baptism of 500 of her companions...
...boarding-school went Gabriel, into the army. Jailed by his father, shot at by his profligate mother, seduced by his sister, married by a good girl, Gabriel's troubles seemed only to begin when he met Sophie de Monnier. The 21-year-old wife of a rich but devout sexagenarian, Sophie had large, black, red-rimmed eyes. When Gabriel eloped with her, his head was declared forfeit, for rape. Yet when she was captured he returned to her side just in time to prevent her taking the poison he knew she always carried with her. After four years in separate...
...Significance. Many Frenchmen have written about Mirabeau?notably Louis Barthou whom Author Jouvenel, generous, believes "almost conclusive." Orderly, perceptively, amusedly, with a good eye for a subject's public-private proportions, Author Jouvenel renders this portrait as a biography in the tradition, though not the manner, of Plutarch, Suetonius, Maurois...