Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retained 100 picturesque acres in the heart of Memphis-one half being virgin woods with massive oaks 250 years old. As additional compensation to us, the State and City built a scenic parkway through our tract 100 ft. wide, ¾ mile long, complete in every detail, costing them $175,000. So Old Tom didn't lose much of his family's inheritance by the tax litigations after...
Buried somewhere on the plump green slopes of Cocos Island are pieces of eight and gold moidores; somewhere off the ancient stone paths is a cache of jewel-studded, solid gold chalices, golden altars, diamond-crusted vestments, 273 jeweled swords, a life-size statue of the Blessed Virgin, wonderfully wrought in purest gold...
...looking for insurance, wants Rumania and Hungary to get together in a solid anti-Soviet Balkan bloc. Last week Theophilus Sidorovici, leader of the Rumanian youth movement and reputed agent of King Carol II, was in Rome, where he gave the Pope a Rumanian carpet and mosaic of the Virgin, gave Premier Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Ciano King Carol's regards. Hungarians, viewing this visit with suspicion, let it be known that Count Csáky himself would soon go to Rome...
...erected Poems of Passion, her brief affair with James Whitcomb Riley (his levity wounded her), her marriage with solid, devoted Robert Wilcox, "a gentleman in every sense of the word" (who years later confided to a fellow club member his astonishment at having found the poetess of passion a virgin...
...Lautner had clear envisaged for him the pitfalls that would of a surety bestrew his path. The field was full astir with the dread enemy, loud roaring for his pure blue blood. Summoning his last ounce of courage, and calling up for the final time the image of the virgin Lily Maid, he ran the gauntlet with a desperate rush...