Word: ys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston Latin Brookline Hires, William L. 19 170 6. Montgomery Berwyn, Pa. Hornblower, Ralph Jr. 18 160 5.10 Milton Academy Boston Hulse, Stacy B. 17 160 5.9 Belmont Hill York, Penn. James, Robert A. 17 175 5.10 H'rv'rd Sch'l f'r B'ys Chicago, Ill. Keyes, Frederick A. 17 160 6. Boston Latin Boston Kurtz, Paul B. 18 130 5.8 South Kent Philadelphia, Pa. Lo Roun, Yann 18 165 5.10 Andover Philadelphia, Pa. Lyell, Rosslyn A. 16 155 5.11 Penn Charter Philadelphia, Pa. Noone, Richard S. 17 155 5.11 Rivers Newton Pratt, Herbert...
...fully daswed ys the book...
...married to a wife who loved him. He was supposed to be a sculptor, so he wasted most of his days and nights with similarly supposititious bohemians. His wife was apparently unfitted for motherhood: not so Adrienne. Then Rosette annexed him for a while. The Countess d'Ys, though unnatural, tried him and found him wanting. When he rejoined his wife on the Riviera much the same sort of thing went on. Marriage in Blue makes the same impression on you as a hellfire sermon on the Seven Deadly Sins, fills you with a nausea of such rioting...
...real French than usual. Eight out of ten natives of Quebec Province and of Montreal speak a provincial French patois, su perficially proud that their French forefathers established the white race's dominion over Canada. But last week, straight from modern France, the null sloop Villa d'Ys slipped into Montreal under the tricolor, bringing its complement of 103 true-speaking French. Purpose: to help the patois-speakers to celebrate le quatorze Juillet, the French Day of Independence. Purpose behind the purpose: to cultivate French-Canadian feeling for things French so that they wall prefer French exports...
...vessel which the French Government sent for the celebration was an appropriate choice. Ys is a fabled lost city off the coast of Brittany, where romantic sailors sometimes hear church-bells ringing under the water. Canada is the lost French colony, whose fate was decided when the French army surrendered at Montreal...