Word: si
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Only one scandal disturbed the Royal homecoming. Crown Princess Astrid of the Belgians, Their Majesties' Swedish daughter-in-law, was flayed last week, by a fanatically Roman Catholic news organ, Le Vingtieme Siècle. Wrote its Priest-Editor: "A recent photograph of Her Royal Highness shows her seated, with the skirt somewhat above the knees. The radiant beauty of the Princess aroused sufficient admiration in itself without the addition of such a piece of trivial daring. The example coming from the throne, or even the steps of the throne, is the most substantial bar that can be opposed...
...gold pen, nearly a foot long, a half inch in diameter, surmounted by a turquoise, and made by famed Jeweler André Falize of Paris. Visitor Kellogg accepted it graciously, found it heavy, noticed his initials engraved upon it, and read the inscription on its green leather case: Si Vis Pacem Par Pacem (If you wish for Peace, prepare for Peace...
Next day troops reported that the prisoners were being held, safe and more or less sound, "as prisoners of war," by one Si Hocine Bou Temga, terrifying tribal chief, at Brahim, high up in the Atlas Mountains. A rescue party set out through torrential rains that were covering the mountains with snow to bargain with the chief for the ransom of the prisoners...
Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, is most picturesque of the four. Reared in that fin-de-siècle British atmosphere that supplied Margot, Viscountess Oxford & Asquith with long, pendent earrings, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde with a sunflower boutonnière and Winston S. Churchill with a paunch, Montagu Collet Norman affects a soft felt hat, bow necktie and a superbly pugnacious goatee. Like his contemporaneous compatriots his wit is keen, his thinking sharp, his knowledge authoritative. Born in 1871, he has been Governor of the Bank of England since...
...here I am back in Cambridge again, finding the dear old town quite deserted by the members of the Vagabond family. While Freshmen prepare for English A and Mill Si. 1, and even gentle men talk about studying the official scion of that worthy race wanders far afield, stopping now in a Maine lumbering hut, now in a Montreal saloon, and then in a New York night club as the light fancy of the vacationist happens to prompt him. This is all very well and quite as it should be, but in his absence I feel the urge...