Word: monke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomatic corps marshal. In the Ambassadors' Court at St. James's Palace, the Reds were met by four of the King's marshalmen in peaked caps and Elizabethan costumes (resembling a cross between the Jack of Hearts and a master of hounds), and Mr. J. B. Monk of the Foreign Office. Sir John Hanbury-Williams led the party to the throne room where Edward of Wales shook hands with a representative of the murderers of his father's cousin...
...There had been unwholesome tales of Gauguin, the stockbroker who deserted wife and child for the allures of Tahiti; Cezanne, the vitriolic rebel of the '90s; Van Gogh, the lunatic. They had been accused of "war madness" and of corruption. But such misgivings had long been allayed. On Monk's cloth the canvases hung, beauteously framed, expensively lighted. All around stood pillars of society. Together they murmured with Sir Joseph: "Wonderful, marvellous...
...given a day of rest. All the Florida players, with the exception of Goodbread, halfback, are ready for action. Goodbread is suffering from a leg injury which may keep the 190-pound sprint star on the side-lines. Should he be unable to play, Dorsett, known as "Million Dollar Monk", will take his place
...martyrdom of the Revolution. Like Michelangelo, Painter Goitia studied anatomy in dissecting rooms "to see about a flagellated back." Once he poured a pail of animal's blood over his model's back to study the spots as they would really appear Painter Goitia looks like a monk, lives frugally, paints much...
Says von Falkenberg: "Improving each week. In fact there has been less use of that 'tycoon,' for I, like the wondrous monk of Siberia got weary and weary and wearier...