Word: patch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people of India constitute one-fifth of the human race and in the plans for reconstruction of the disjointed world, India also claims consideration. Mere patch-work, though called reconstruction, does not become so unless grievances of all the nations of the World are sympathetically and seriously attended...
Although attempts were being made to patch the matter up by payment of "blood money", in accordance with a tribal custom, members of the Italian colony became irate, declared that the engineer had not had a fair trial. Some of them became disgusted, left the country...
...interview in which the Dictator (real name Marquis de Estella) defended his regime, he was described as "robust, determined, democratic, above medium height, with a small bald patch surrounded by dark hair and with an upper lip bristling with mustachios...
...eyes of the world were upon a small patch of Italian territory* situate at 1400 New Hampshire Avenue in Washington, where lives Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., aristocratic diplomat, diplomatic aristocrat...
...this is, of course, known "downstairs," where more scandal is known of the "upstairs" than among the society folk themselves. The servants gain much of their information through a little game they have invented. Torn letters are salvaged from waste baskets, and he who can patch them most cleverly wins the prize. Sprang, the butler, who is a devout Methodist and a bachelor, makes no secret of his disapproval of the goings on "upstairs." In this he has the unqualified support of Craig, the chauffeur. Meanwhile Louis Le Tour, the captain's man, enlivens the scene by making love...