Word: inners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family, but often had the house to himself when they were away in the Hills; he had his own servant, his own rig, all that went with it. "Till I was in my 24th year, I no more dreamed of dressing myself than I did of shutting an inner door. . . . And-luxury of which I dream still-I was shaved before I was awake!" Even when he dined alone, he always dressed for dinner...
...soldier in the large army with which Edward invaded France. Captured and ransomed by the King, he was shipped back across the Channel with dispatches. With this as a beginning for his long diplomatic career, he spent part of the next seven years as a law student at the Inner Temple. For seven more years he held the rank of esquire in King Edward's domicile. Winter and summer he had to amuse the lords of the court with talk of politics, with piping, harping, or signing...
With the pop eyes of ignorance most of the testers looked on the great pyx*-, an ancient chest three feet square, used according to records for 98 years, and no one knows how much longer. Ceremonially its great padlocks were removed, its lid thrown back, its twelve inner compartments, one for each month, revealed. In each compartment were labeled bags of coin, the heaviest freight which the old pyx had ever borne: 92,492 pieces of small change, samples of the 184,843,732 coins† minted at Philadelphia, San Francisco and Denver...
...candidate will come to know the inner workings of the College's many departments. He will learn that Peabody Museum still treasures a mermaid that was once the possession of the great Barnum. He will discover, if he can, why the Fogg Art Museum is going to sponsor a performance of "Murder In The Cathedral", and what possible relation this-may bear to the recently published "Harvard Has A Homicide". He will view the dim recesses of University Hall where student's lives are made and broken...
...that he split off Vienna from Budapest and rule at least one half of the Kingdom decently. When his revolt starts and the guns begin to crack, however, Rudolph realizes that all governments are alike, that rulers must kill to rule and that every state is run by an inner ring for profit. On top of this sudden conversion to political atheism, Rudolph loses faith in Mary and there is nothing left but despair. When the sun comes up there are two corpses in Mayerling, some 35 elsewhere in Vienna and adequate official explanations for everything...