Word: kept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great point in his favor with Her Majesty?and presently he showed more smartness than most in fetching her Bible and carrying her "salts." Moreover Page Ponsonby had good blood, the blue of his maternal great grandsire Earl Grey (Prime Minister 1830-34); .and so the Great Queen kept "that dear Ponsonby child" in her service for five whole years, placing him less than a decade later in the Diplomatic Service. Unfortunate Victoria! She could not know that in 1929?in fact this month?onetime Page Ponsonby would publish a most scathing and compactly venomous report exposing lies and shady...
...hockey team swept to its third straight victory by defeating Milton Academy on the preparatory school's rink by a 3 to 0 score yesterday afternoon. The first year six, by shutting out the repeated tries for goals made by the Milton forwards, kept the slate clean of any score against them...
...international headquarters Aunt Evangeline inquired for Niece Catherine. Niece Catherine sent word she would be down presently, and then departed privily by a side door for home. Eventually the two did meet, but what passed between them was kept a family secret...
...late Henry Pomeroy Davison initiated the renaissance of the Guaranty Trust Co.* The bank had been founded (1864) during the crooked financial period of the Civil War. It was then called the New York Guarantee & Indemnity Co. The late Samuel D. Babcock kept its financing reputable through the dishonest '70s. Thereafter its honesty was no longer necessary, for it ceased to exist except as a name and the title owner of a piece of Long Island real estate...
...front page. His pen was not as facile or as provoking as his father's, but his imagination was wilder. Somebody told him that the Herald was getting to be a Roman Catholic sheet; immediately a roaring editorial headed "To Hell with the Pope" was written. A wise secretary kept it off the press after Bennett had gone...