Word: hiatus
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...hiatus occurred in the conversations at lunch time. At the French Embassy in Albert Gate House, Hyde Park, a great assemblage of dignitaries rendered homage to M. de Fleurian's cuisine. Most distinguished of the guests was Alanson B. Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, attired immaculately as ever, owlish in his heavy horn-rimmed spectacles. His presence at the political feast, considered a signficant sign of U. S. interest in the security parley, despite unequivocal and official denials, was a topic of discussion for days after. Rightly or wrongly...
...Autobiography. Some English children are playing Hamlet as a drawing-room entertainment for Christmas, 1867. The melancholy Dane, a likely stripling of 14, wears a velvet tunic between the hem of which and a pair of his mother's black stockings there yawns "a sad hiatus" when he sits. Friends of the family swell the audience, including three painters-Ford Madox Brown, Laurence Alma-Tadema, Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A lissom youth with auburn hair and a weak but beautiful countenance stretches on the rug, slightly disconcerting the actors by chanting the lines with them in a melodious undertone...
...Organized Hiatus in the Building Industry?It Costs Too Much...
...average undergraduate of the present day is liable to treat too lightly infractions of athletic discipline, and there is no substantial public opinion against the offenders. The principal cause of this is the lapse in the athletic tradition of Harvard caused by the hiatus...
...less concentrated hours does not show a lack of proportion in his interests; and thrusts the question of lopsidedness back upon the athletes who provide the show. It may still be doubted, however, whether the all-absorbing two months' football season does not create too great a hiatus in serious work...