Word: sweetest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sweetest gift...
...whence next month's rent was coming. They went down on their marble terrace and peered through foolish, expensive little opera glasses out over the Yellow Sea, strained their eyes toward the Chinese coast, tried to see a low, rakish ship. Aboard would be, they hoped, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World," as Marshal Chang Tsung-chang is called by one of his English-speaking women, Miss Anabelle ("Trixie") Cronan...
...they informed him via field telegraph of their rout, he instantly demanded two millions more from the terrified merchants of Chefoo, threatened to burn down their warehouses, kidnap their women, tear out their beards and worse-if they did not pay. When he had collected all he could, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World" sailed from Chefoo...
...Brion and finally in sublime Chateau Lafite, a wine possessing so grand a flavor and bouquet as to make mere Champagne an anticlimax. After recovering from the ecstacy of sniffing and sipping red Chateau Lafite. however, Mr. George Reeves-Smith likes to end with a white Chateau Yquem, "the sweetest, most wonderful of wines." "I never drink any of the wine when I test it," he continued. "That's what most people think is done, but if I swallowed it I couldn't taste its flavor. I look at the color, smell for bouquet, take a little...
Hardly a day goes by that one is not forcibly made aware of what these men have been doing for the sweetest of the arts; and even in the black of night the cloistered scholar may awake to find the strains of music penetrating the former fastness of the Yard. How unbecoming then to impute motives other than the keenest interest in making sport to the promoters of the present music marathon...