Word: happiest
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...Elizabeth Duchess of York, whose happiest years were spent there, Glamis Castle is a very good place to have a baby. To a superstitious Briton?and there are millions of them?Glamis Castle is a very bad place. Glamis (pronounced Glahms) was old before Macbeth did murder sleep and Duncan. The central keep and two detached towers on the lawn date from at least the 10th Century. Glamis boasts all the romantic appurtenances of a novel by Horace Walpole. It has a secret staircase, a "Priest's hole" where Papists were hidden during the Commonwealth, the room where Macbeth murdered...
...Model Governor" of Shansi province, which he has in fact erected into an independent island state (surrounded by China), Yen rightly claims the high distinction of having brought prosperity to 11,000,000 souls, the happiest in China today, despite a food shortage in the southwestern part. His hobbies are not women, whiskey, opium or even gold; but good roads, silkworm culture, soldiers for defense, police to preserve order, and the development of superior cattle, horses, plows, poultry, fertilizers?all things of direct benefit to his rustic people...
Last week occurred the 50th birthday of Director William R. Valentiner of the Detroit Institute of Arts, onetime director of the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum in Berlin. It was perhaps his happiest birthday. First, 50 friends gave him a dinner, and $5,000 in gold. Second, he had just engineered for his museum the largest exhibition of Rembrandts ever assembled in the U. S. There were 78 paintings, ten of them owned in Detroit, many loaned by the nation's wealthiest private collectors -John Pierpont Morgan, Michael Friedsam, Charles M. Schwab, Jules Semon Bache, et al. Of another event...
...write this book), to the Azores, and home again. He had been gone five years, had sailed almost 40,000 miles. Says he: "As the end of my voyage drew nearer a great sadness took possession of me; the cruise was soon to end, and with it the happiest period of my life. . . ." At Havre Circumnavigator Gerbault was given a warm reception, a gold medal, was made officer of the Legion of Honor...
Captain Jack; and the impeccable Faulkland whose troubled wooing of Julia Melville reaches the happiest matrimonial culminations...