Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stuart, whose motto is "Duggie Never Owes" is not a person but a syndicate. Busiest member of the syndicate is breezy, dapper, dark-haired Sidney Freeman, who once worked with Novelist Edgar Wallace on a South African newspaper, and who would "rather trust an English bricklayer than a foreign nobleman," in the matter of bets. For the last three years. Bookmaker Freeman has been coming to the U. S. to buy up Irish Hospital tickets, leaving his associates to handle the domestic business which this year gave ''Duggie" an interest of approximately $2.500.000 in the Derby...
...water during several long days, the book is a very good job. There is the usual assortment of widely unlike characters common to these one-scene stories: A German professor of sociology, a rich and impressionable American lady, an interesting captain, a ship's officer of the nature's nobleman variety, and others...
...dropped in 300 years from 12,000,000 to approximately half. The Inquisition had burned 30,000, imprisoned ten times as many. The court aped the worst of France. Duchesses dressed as servants and snooped through the streets or tore their mantillas fighting for title to a bullfighter. One nobleman explained his kindness to his servants by inquiring: "How can I be sure my real father is not among them?" There were riots every day in Madrid except during the Siesta. Across the Pyrenees in France, Voltaire and a Swiss-born neurotic called Jean Jacques Rousseau were mouthing strange phrases...
...strange disciples the one who has caused Mahatma Gandhi the sharpest pangs of dismay is plump & pleasing Nilla Cram Cook, 23-year-old daughter of the late George Cram Cook, Iowa poet. At 19 Nilla Cram Cook married a Greek nobleman. Three years later she was converted to Hinduism under the name of Nilla Nagini and Devi, "The Blue Serpent Lady...
...precept, urged him to become a craftsman, he obliged him, by his glory, to act the lordling. While he preached simplicity, industry, frugality and love of the people to him, his three houses, his sedan chair, his titles and his fame gave him the rank of a nobleman. When he thought about this, Benny felt wretched and ashamed. But what could he do about...