Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sagas seldom fail to be interesting, and this account of last summer's ocean race to Spain is no exception to the rule. All the details of the trip over in the winning schooner, the "Elena," a boat only a little more than 100 feet long over all, are told by the daughter of the "Skipper" and owner...
Once upon a time Queen Victoria thought she had made quite a good Page of Honor out of little Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby. The child seldom sniveled?a great point in his favor with Her Majesty?and presently he showed more smartness than most in fetching her Bible and carrying her "salts." Moreover Page Ponsonby had good blood, the blue of his maternal great grandsire Earl Grey (Prime Minister 1830-34); .and so the Great Queen kept "that dear Ponsonby child" in her service for five whole years, placing him less than a decade later in the Diplomatic Service...
...TIME seldom overlooks a bet; but I think you fell down this time to the tune of the above...
...teetotaler. Purring from the garage comes either Mr. Kellogg's own Pierce Arrow or the Secretary of State's Packard. The small man who steps briskly in always carries a cane, and always wears a dark suit or morning clothes-but without a valet the clothes are seldom newly pressed. Speeding to the State Department, the master is perhaps a little sad to find that his right hand man-R. E.†Olds-is gone. As Under Secretary of State (1927-28), Mr. Olds was well-nigh indispensable to Mr. Kellogg. Today there is really no "favorite" among...
...never sets on the British empire, then there is seldom a time when it is not shining down on a cricket game. Last week, when London was in darkness and the old, sick king stirred in the night at Buckingham Palace, the most important cricket of the year was being played in Melbourne, Australia. This was the third match in the series played yearly between a team of picked Britishers and a team of picked Australians for the "ashes...