Word: raphaels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a telephone tinkled in the London residence of the Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim. It was Captain Hamilton calling from Upavon, Wiltshire. The weather reports were favorable. His plane, the St. Raphael, was ready. Her maid hastily packed two brief cases, two red hat boxes, a little wicker basket and bundled them into a motor. The Princess entered the automobile and ordered speed...
Outside on the flying field a woman was kneeling. Over her the Most Rev. Francis Mostyn, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff, was praying, asking a blessing. On the ship he sprinkled holy water. Soon rose the motor roar which drowns goodbys on flying fields. The St. Raphael moved, gained speed, just averted disaster at the takeoff, and disappeared toward the Atlantic...
...Venetia has just come home from school, and Serle, always close to her, is her devoted friend. At a houseparty she meets Saville, a young author, and dislikes him intensely. Six years later, Ysabel, American musical comedy star, enters the book and promptly falls in love with Saville. "Young Raphael," a Jew, in turn falls in love with her, and steals one of his father's diamonds as a present. She refuses it, and the affair is found out. Saville, however, rejects her, and falls in love with Venetia, till he finds out that Serle had once been her lover...
...Venetia marries Young Raphael, who is by this time reconciled with his father; Saville and Ysabel are living in Paris, and all the minor characters have conveniently died off. Venetia has always known that she would marry Young Raphael--so has the reader--but the interest is kept up till the end, as the characters at times become so involved with one another--that it takes a long time and even an extra paragraph...
Professor J. H. Woods '87, of the Philosophy Department, Raphael Demos '19. Assistant Professor of Philosophy, and Tutor in the Division of Philosophy, and W. R. Spalding '87, Professor of Music, will take next year as a Sabbatical, it was announced yesterday. Each will travel abroad and study...