Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time I visited Buckingham Palace as a guest of the King, a distinguished looking man, whom I had been informed was Lord Dawson, came and shook my hand in a most familiar fashion, saying. 'Have you forgotten...
...longer the same man," said Dr. de Gennes to reporters waiting in the rain. "What lassitude! The kidneys of Monsieur le President du Conseil have not functioned for 18 hours. Nothing can save him now except a miracle...
Pretty Mary Plummer. "It was the happiest time I have ever known, the only really happy one"?so wrote Clemenceau of three brief years he spent as a young man in New York, where he worked as a librarian, and at Stamford, Conn., where he taught young ladies French and how to ride horses, at Miss Aiken's boarding school...
...himself with Arabella Churchill, created their son Duke of Berwick.? A son of Berwick acquired by marriage and heritage the Spanish dukedom of Alba. Except that his lineage and sporting tastes are almost royal. Alba can scarcely claim real ''fit- ness" to be Prime Minister. He is no man of business and great affairs like the Marquis de Urquito. Although he has been a Deputy and Senator in the now defunct Cortes, the Duke has never held states- manly office or high military rank, is primarily a crony of the King and like him addicted to Biarritz, Deauville...
...Herr Zeileis does not claim to cure the people he strokes with his "pencil"-a childishly simple high-frequency coil operated by an automobile battery. If they go away and claim to be cured of everything from appendicitis to housemaid's knee that is their business. The Pencil Man will not take from any patient more than three Austrian shillings (42?). He seldom pencils a man or woman for more than 30 seconds, treats hundreds of poor "patients" free. In 40 years of eccentric hocus-pocus he has never broken two rules: i) The groups he pencils must always...