Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just 50 years ago, while cannon boomed and church bells rang, an 18-year-old girl with a sweet and melancholy face walked across the ancient square to Amsterdam's Nieuwe Kerk.* A purple mantle was on her shoulders, a diadem in her hair. She was Wilhelmina, Princess of Orange, about to become Queen of The Netherlands...
...better tell you who I am. My name is Juliana ..." Then she spoke of her family, finally of her children. "You will see them among you . . . for we do not lock ourselves up-it just is not in our nature ... I rather think that they are very sweet children. Above all things, they smile quite easily. Please give them your smile and they will be happy and they will ask for very little more...
...Remarkable symbolism, that," observed Alexandre Verdelis, Greek delegate to OEEC, who watched Gaillard. "He collects fragments of English 'Players,' French 'Gauloises,' American 'Chesterfields,' sweet Turkish and powdery Belgian cigarettes. He puts them all together and rolls a smoke that is undoubtedly harmonious...
...today the "sweet madness" of that era, as Editor Hodapp calls it, may seem neither very sweet nor so terribly mad, still it is possible that many middle-aged readers will find in this book's backward glance a nostalgic moment-less, perhaps, for the actual quality of life in the '20s than for the kind of easy illusions it was then possible to cultivate...
...abide Rome. When a cousin asked Bridie to marry him, she agreed to "turn" Protestant, and Aunt Lisha, delighted, left her everything when she died. But then came Catholic Aunt Rose Anne to invoke the wrath of the church, curse her roundly and give her a clout besides. Poor, sweet, ignorant Bridie, half demented by repeated bouts of intolerance, rushed wildly out of the house, was found dead in a boghole next...