Word: monke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lovelorn monk...
Tall as a white church-candle, her hair a decorous oval flame, a great lady stood on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. To the simpering music of Massenet she postured and sang, while a lovelorn monk pursued her. What should a monk have to do with so great, so good a lady? Ah, he was trying to save her soul from hellfire, for in the play she was not good at all. She was Maria Jeritza (Baroness Von Popper) pretending to be Thais (famed harlot) at the season's first performance of the opera of that...
...cost $500,000). Two portraits in his collection (A Gentleman With High Hat and Gloves in Right Hand; and A Lady with Ostrich Feather Fan in Right Hand) are the subject of the suit instituted in the Supreme Court by Prince Yusupov, a participant in the arduous murder of Monk Rasputin. Yusupov sold the pictures to Mr. Widener in 1921, but maintains that a clause in the contract gave him the privilege of repurchase at the original price plus 8% interest, provided he used his own money and wanted the pictures for his own enjoyment alone. "Assassin," - "degenerate," "buffoon," "joke...
...have to know in order to love. Others of his loves were Fan-Fan and Mary. Unhappily, Fan-Fan grew fat and coarse, Mary entered a convent and disappointingly turned out to be not a virgin, after all. Life began to seem very futile to Paulus. He became a monk to be near Mary. Very soon he was released from the obnoxious life of the monastery by a professional call from Death. Arrived in Heaven, Paulus meets God. "You are a man after my own heart, Paulus Fy," says God. They embrace, and the book ends...
...oratory, belaboring the Republicans ?regular and insurgent?making the galleries laugh. When a Republican rose in reply, and there seemed any possibility of a successful counter attack, Caraway of Arkansas interposed. He wandered from seat to seat, with his hands in his pockets, or walked like a monk in the monastery yard? head bowed, hands held before him? stopping only to drawl an apt, ironical remark. In the third row, beside the aisle, handling his books and papers, the downright Robinson, Democratic leader, maintained a watchful eye on the course of legislation, now and then casting in a tart...