Word: climbers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandfather. Louis Philippe, the "Bourgeois-King'' of France, had no liking for display, became known as the worst-dressed monarch of modern times. In the early years of his reign he inaugurated colonial reforms, associated with Socialist politicians, granted universal suffrage, was considered a scholar and mountain climber who was always badly in need of a haircut...
...Everything will sound suspiciously like boasting. Not an autobiographical novel, it presents some striking similarities between its hero and its author. Even Bromfield enthusiasts may be shocked at this expression of his high opinion of himself, but readers who have begun to suspect that he is only a literary climber will find their suspicions hardening into certainty...
Once a stocky mountain-climber named Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI is at 77 in good health, except for a slight diabetic condition. In February he celebrated the 13th anniversary of his accession to the Chair of St. Peter. He has thus outreigned his two immediate predecessors, Benedict XV and Pius X, who respectively died after eight and eleven years in the Papacy. But Pius XI must marshal his health for many more years to equal the longevity of two other Popes of the century past, Leo XIII who lived 93 years, died in 1903 after...
...suspicions in the only way she knew. In spite of the gooseberries everything seemed to be coming out all right when Terry's tongue slipped. That set gossip wagging. Daisy might have shut her ears to the gossip but when she was assailed by a friendly but blackmailing social-climber, she knew the fat was in the fire. She collapsed, fled to her inaccessible cottage in France to hide her shame. Who pursued her there and what happened to make everything come out as well as could be expected is a denouement that "Elizabeth's" kindly wit just rescues from...
...harmless social climber like genial Jimmy Thomas could ever have done such a thing was distinctly puzzling. He was not even present when members of the Royal Family signed the register at Westminster Abbey. Cabinet ministers like himself signed later at Buckingham Palace. Moreover, if he had managed to sign first, would either King George or Queen Mary have been likely to sign below James Henry Thomas...