Word: leste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serene white yacht to meet T. R. H., as their steamer hove in to Alexandria. Even distant observers could discern His Majesty's obsequious nervousness. He is a British puppet and in constant danger of assassination by patriots of his own race. More, he is constantly anxious lest such patriots molest or assassinate British officials in Egypt. Therefore, though precautions to protect the English princes had been tripled and re-tripled, they were entertained principally upon His Majesty's yacht...
Outside an office building, in Lichtenburg, South Africa, stood a solitary man. He wanted to enter an office but it was closed. Also he wanted to be first to enter, so he dared not leave the door lest someone take his place. So he waited, sleeping by his post at night, and nights were cold last week in Lichtenburg...
...Lest the damned bridegroom should trespass into the church itself, it was roped off. But ropes were quickly lowered to facilitate the exit from the Church of a Most Catholic wedding guest, Her Royal Highness, Marguerite de MacMahon, Duchesse de Magenta, nee Princesse d'Orleans, sister of the Pretender to the Throne of France. Apparently the Princess had blundered into the Church, looking for the wedding, which she later attended in the Vestry...
...Tideboys until Shep's guardian, Cesar Honfleur, persuaded Shep to acquire an education, respectability. Shep & Phoebe were married. In an incredibly short time Shep mastered Latin, went to the University of Texas, won a fellowship. But Phoebe, tiring of trying to learn out of books, fearful lest she retard the progress of Shep, returned to the road, stayed several years, defied Shep's frantic efforts to find her. The Tideboy estate was sold to a Britisher, given to protracted orgies, and his color less, passionate wife. The Britisher fled during a drunken spell, joined the circus in which...
Lubricating local machinery was pleasant. Mr. Raskob again assured everyone that there would be some $4,000,000 on hand. About $500,000 would go into the Corn Belt, he said, and $600,000 for the nationwide radio campaign. Lest these sums sound too large, he took care to add that he had learned "from well-advised Republicans" that the G. O. P. campaign fund, now announced as between three and four millions, would reach six or seven or even eight millions. G. O. P. Chairman Work quickly retorted that Mr. Raskob was being "absurd...