Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Alexandru Averescu, onetime (1920-22; 1926-27) Prime Minister, who helped to defend M. Manoilescue, testified that the late King Ferdinand saw Prince Carol in Paris last year and attempted to persuade him to abandon Magda Lupescu, his red-haired mistress, and conduct himself as the court wished. The Prince seemed willing, but made conditions. Whereupon the King angrily cried: "It is not for you to make conditions "but for me, the King, to do so!" Embittered at his son's attitude, the ailing Monarch returned to Bucharest. Soon afterwards, however, he admitted to General Averescu that Prince...
...quill. He had used it most in moments of depression; waking up in Italy after a night of debauch, he would sit before it for an hour or more, trying to trace out some verses of Don Juan, a poem which bored him before its completion. Whenever he saw the desk being set up in his chambers after some journey, it reminded him of an interminable effort. He had never, on any occasion, been content when he began writing on it, he had never been honestly satisfied when he pushed back his chair and left it. But John Jeffrey...
...they wondered what wild emotion caused the bronze woman to clasp her hands and open her mouth in so inane a fashion. Some of the sharper babbits decided that she was laughing at the companion works of Sculptor Epstein; then they looked at their catalogs and saw, "No. 21: Weeping Woman." They turned to the bronze face again. Slowly there crept into their minds the feeling that perhaps, in her slack eyes, her gasping mouth, her anguished hands there existed in truth some climax of sorrow. Lest they should be forced to reverse their preconceived opinions of Mr. Epstein, they...
...with three of whom, notably one Jemmy Button, he became intimate), among the corals of the Pacific Islands and the animals and fish that swarmed in the dark oceans, made him less certain. He foresaw that "longing" was not the cause of one species merging into another. But he saw the merging, came to be assured that the world's fauna were not divided into rigorous tribes but were, rather, in a continuous and universal state of flux; he began to look for the real reasons behind this perpetual revolution...
...granddaughter's wrist and shook her arm 'Don't you understand? You must resist her. . . . Why, if I were your age, knowing her as I do, knowing that she never had a grain of good in her . . . do you know what I would do?' She saw the apprehension in Emily's face and stopped...