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Cornered, the General took refuge in silence, refused to answer the princess for some weeks. He reflected that the lanky but athletic young man at whose presence he was asked to wink is, after all, the grandson and heir apparent of the erstwhile Kaiser. Princess Cecilia's son,* though...
Myra became a beautiful young woman, short, plump, like a dove in repose, in action very erect, vital, challenging. Her spirit and swift wit were of a sort that old John Driscoll could understand, "racy, and none too squeamish." He was probably proud of her the snowy night she left...
The sparrows and pigeons that live in a thousand Gothic niches about Britain's Houses of Parliament swarmed up to their nests and then out again in frightened flutter. Some of the pigeons took refuge off in Trafalgar Square, which was singularly empty that afternoon. All of London seemed...
Few of them are real teachers. One can know multiple roots and have no sense of pedagogy. One can be sure of himself in the oral quizz for a doctorate and lack the vital spark which makes for communication of ideas. Yet some can play through the grind of procuring...
*Traditionally founded by St. Marinus as a Christian refuge from the persecution of Diocletian, A. D. 284-305. †Area, 38 sq. mi. Frontier length, 24 mi. Population, 12,027 (1920). San Marino has a treaty of friendship with Italy, and extradition treaties with Britain, the Netherlands and the U...