Word: loyall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major Butt, loyal to each, never saw the end of the Taft-Roosevelt feud. In March 1912, he sailed for a European holiday. In April he returned on the Titanic, was lost with the ship. President Taft ordered all flags half-staffed for him throughout the land. Augusta built a $40,000 Butt memorial bridge across its yellow canal...
...money from his pupils. What he earns from his books, he turns over to the International Psychoanalytic Publishing Co., a non-profit organization for printing psychoanalytic books. His spare time is spent on a revision of his work in dreams. Anna, his daughter, is his best student, his most loyal supporter. She acts as his interpreter to the world. During his lifetime he has shunned publicity, has had few interviews with the press. He abhors sensationalism, has been so engrossed in study at his desk in Vienna that he is unaware of the great, often flagrant publicity given...
...finds a pretty young middle-class doctor's wife refreshing, until her bourgeois virtue thwarts him. Later he loves a hard-headed little model for her honest kindness, and there is mention of a game-keeper's daughter. His only steadfast affection is for Chevron, its venerable house, its loyal tenantry, even its exhausting duties. Increasingly the proprieties grow upon him, and at last he languidly courts a proper match. Against his will he takes part in the coronation of George V. and Queen Mary, and during its wearisome ceremonies feels that his career as an individual is ended...
...Beethoven, to whom the name "Titan" was long ago accorded. An aura of worship clings about this tough Rhinelander who transformed the intolerable affliction of his deafness into mighty music. His impossible pride impeded the social intercourse he desired. He loved always unsuccessfully. His tempestuous affections multiplied troubles with loyal friends and an ungracious family. Yet invariably out of his greatest despair came his most triumphant works: the Eroica symphony sprang from misery that led him to write his will in Heiligenstadt. This biography succeeds despite irreverent handling of disputed material and much romantic fluff. Beethoven emerges the most distinct...
Captain Roland Molyneux-Loyal to the Empire waistline, the captain-couturier is even more Napoleonic in attempting to revive the poke bonnet, trimmed with fur, ostrich feathers, cock plumes. Lounging pyjamas are voluminous, trailing like a dress in back, trousered in front...