Word: scarum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bridges books: Poetical Works; Demetcr, a Mask; Humdrum and Harum-Scarum, A Lecture on Free Verse...
Hoary and respected Professor Nicholas Jorga, onetime tutor of King Mihai's harum scarum and now exiled father, Prince Carol, rose from his Deputy's seat to propose the candidacy of his old pupil. A member of the Royal Family should be elected, he urged, but not a woman. "Have you forgotten," he cried, "that the Constitution restricts membership in the Regency Council as well as occupancy of the Throne to males...
Citizens of pastoral Liechtenstein-minute, autonomous, mountain-hemmed, principality adjoining Switzerland-had every right, last week, to call their new ruler, Prince Franz, a harum scarum...
...Harum-scarum Prince Franz is 76. He was five years old when his elder brother, Johann, came to the throne in 1858, and therefore he had to wait over 70 years for Good Prince Johann's death and his own accession a few months ago. So good was Johann, in the purest dynastic sense, that Prince Franz lived in daily terror for some 20 years lest his affair with a commoner be found out. His secret morganatic marriage a decade ago scarcely decreased the couple's anxiety. Today the new Mother of Liechtenstein is 51. She and Prince...
Monica, well bred, was exceedingly cordial to Hester; but Hester was rude with harum-scarum honesty. She swept Clive off to her world of modernistic furniture, and noisy banter, while Monica quietly retired from London to the country. Then Hester, disturbed by the misery she felt in Clive, in Monica, could not leave well enough alone; followed her mother-in-law, and by malicious coincidence found an old lover among Monica's new friends. Monica, quick to recognize the situation, flared into unaccustomed wrath, disrupting the close understanding between Clive and his wife. Only by the deftest handling...