Word: lad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dapper and citified in spats and white piping on his vest, this elegant gentleman steps into the Overlook homestead and meets the missus. During the course of the conversation Overlook allows that despite his fifteen years in the city, he has always been a country lad at heart, whereas his visitor and his charming wife were born to the civilized life of cities. The latter looks at Mrs. Overlook with "a twist of hopeless longing in his eyes," and replies in a low voice. "I was born in a Iowa...
Gawking tourists did not notice the King-Emperor when he returned from his ride. They were assembled with a guide-lecturer who was, for once, not lecturing. Popeyed, they watched a lad of four years parade about the Castle courtyard shouldering a toy wooden gun. He, whispered the lecturer, was George Henry Hubert Las-celles, eldest son of Princess Mary Viscountess Lascelles, and eldest grandson of the King-Emperor. While Master Hubert strutted, His Majesty descended from his mare and passed unnoticed within...
Disentangling himself, Cardinal Piffl found his eys arrested by a news item. It told how Hungarian Bishop Zichy had examined at Lequeitio, Spain, the day before a young lad who is the legitimate head of the House of Habsburg and pretender to the throne of Hungary. He, the young Archduke Otto, 15, had been examined for three days by Bishop Zichy, who declared him fluent and proficient in Hungarian, English, German, French, Latin, Greek and Spanish. Said Cardinal Piffl, addressing a parish priest with whom he was walking: "This is a strange coincidence. About midnight last night I awoke with...
...mouth already. Where do you want it?" said the gypsy lad...
...large red fox bearing gashes of a fatal battle. They hung the fox on a tree. Before dawn of the fifth day, which chanced to be the second anniversary of the exhumation of Miner Floyd Collins who died in Sand Cave, Ky., one Willie Nelson, slim farm lad, slipped into the digging and extricated Rip, prized foxhound owned by one R. V. Kelly, sporting bachelor. After dozing beside a fire and refusing to pose for press photographers, Rip died of pneumonia. His rescue had cast...