Word: helpmeet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small inheritance) while his brother Jonathan worked his way through the local medical school. Both brothers loved elfin yet extremely modern Edie-Harold blithely, Jonathan desperately. Came the War with a smart uniform for Harold, a curt injunction that Jonathan continue as invaluable village doctor. His constant helpmeet was Rachel, dark-eyed beauty, but he kept reminding himself that calm brunettes were not his type -too unlike Edie. These contemplations were rudely interrupted by Harold reported killed and Edie marrying disillusioned "brother Jonathan," that she might honorably bear Harold's child. Harold's unexpected reappearance so confuses...
Recently Queen Marie visited Rome. She saw the Pope and arranged a basis for a concordat. She sniffed around the Italian Court, and selected the Princess Mafalda, second daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele, as a suitable helpmeet for her fourth child, Prince Nicholas, now a midshipman on the British cruiser Benbow. With Rumania, foreign policy follows the Queen. She planned a formal visit for herself and King Ferdinand in April, not only to discuss the marriage, but the possibility of closer and more confidential relations between the two Latin nations that flank the turbulent Balkans. The Italian Court sent...