Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Seventeenth Century France," Professor Moore, Andover Hall...
...Seventeenth Century France," Professor Moore, Andover Hall...
...Early Seventeenth Century. Came the Great Frost: the new King celebrated his coronation with an ice carnival on the frozen Thames, and there Orlando fell passionately in love with a Muscovite Princess. His verse likened her to a pineapple, an emerald, a fox in the snow; and for weeks their bliss was the gossip of the icebound court. Then she jilted him, and he went into a trance...
...Middle Seventeenth Century. Writer-folk had always filled him with awe: he patronized a hack-writer till the scurrilous wag wrote a lucrative burlesque on his patron's foppish existence. King Charles thereupon gave Orlando escape as Ambassador Extraordinary to Constantinople though Nell Gwyn regretted that such a pair of legs should leave the country...
From Row Q (seventeenth row, rise please) there was one consoling feature. The leading lady, one Jeanette Macdonald, seemed remarkably good to look upon. Of course the seventeenth row has certain disadvantages for such observation, but she really was quite good. Only one other feature can possibly be mentioned within a city block of the word "good" and that is a group of what are billed as Chester Hale Girls. They do a few very well executed dances...