Word: lorelei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dove and a young man's fancy. It is only a time when for a few weeks a man will spend his pay check on poor movies, bad beer, a rented canoe, and a ride on a roller coaster. And all because the shrubs grow greener upon the Lorelei in spring. Poets and songsters have been wrong; but the rugged, hard-headed, unsentimental Angle-Saxons in their far-off wisdom had a four letter word...
...course, can boast of a few such men in its history, and can embalm them in catalogues for the enchantment of the yokelry. During prosperous years men attracted by their example have been able to survive, to balance precarious budgets and to secure their degrees, but at present the Lorelei have left many stranded upon the inhospitable rocks...
...served in the Coldstreams, was killed in the War. In 1924 Lord Willingdon's second son, the Hon. Inigo Brassey Freeman-Thomas married Maxine, daughter of emaciated Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, famed Hamlet. Dimpling, buxom Lady Willingdon was a noted beauty in her youth, and a literal Lorelei. Years ago, returning to Britain from Australia, Mrs. Freeman-Thomas, as she then was, gave a large dinner party in the saloon of the P & O liner Clima, which was eagerly attended by the captain, chief officer and most of the staff. While Mrs. Freeman-Thomas dimpled her prettiest...