Word: self
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under the middle chandelier stands a stocky, pale gentleman in faultless evening attire. His bald head is a palish gray; his prominent eyeballs, framed in reddish half-closed lids, have a lustreless prismatic glint; a shapeless little poodle nose surmounts a self-indulgent mouth which prepares us for his ample waistline and the folds of flesh above his stiff collar. He stands alone because the cercle round him has formed at a respectful distance. Now ... [a sycophant] advances with a deep obeisance, shakes the great man's hand . . . and then withdraws backward, wriggling his rump with fawning rapture. . . . Vivat...
...more than 13 gallons of hard liquor may be bought in any one year by even the most virtuous citizen. Less than 40% of the passbook holders ask for enough to fill their quotas. Single, self-supporting women were sternly held down by Dr. Bratt to an average of a gallon a year. Bachelors must attain the age of 23 before becoming eligible for a passbook...
...Great Britain abandoned them to true independence, they would again fall prey to some other Power-which Power would then control the Suez Canal. . . . For this reason the British Foreign Office has honestly and without hypocrisy proclaimed that control of Egypt is, for the British Empire, a measure of self defense." Five years' residence in Cairo, and conversations with British officials in many Departments prove to me that you credit them with a candor which they are far from claiming themselves. The Suez Canal is a mere pretext, and is so admitted by British officials. Nothing would be easier...
...Black Monk" Gregory Novihh-called "Rasputin" (which means the "Debauchee"), and famed as the evil nemesis of the last Tsar and Tsaritsa of All the Russias. Pending in Paris is a damage suit for 25,000,000 francs brought by Mme. Soloviev against Prince Felix Youssoupov, the self-confessed killer of Monk Rasputin...
Died. William S. Taylor, 76, onetime (1900) governor of Kentucky, self-exiled to Indiana following the assassination of his Democratic rival, William Goebel (see p. 12); of heart disease; in Indianapolis...