Word: whims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vigorous in British government and culture. The tall but awkward Essex, 25, took Leicester's place as Queen's favorite when the Queen was over 50, long nosed, toothless, petulant. A few years later, harassed by his insubordination, she signed his death warrant. Alternating between vicious whim and heroism, no admirer ever brought her a full, rich, personal love. When she died, no man's hand could, by her will, touch her body to embalm...
...essential fact is simply that President Hipolito Irigoyen is the absolute and irresponsible "political boss" of Argentina. When he chooses to pay there will be no difficulty, for receipts and surplus in the Argentine Treasury are adequate, even above normal. Friends of Argentina hoped that "Irigoyen's Whim" would not become "Irigoyen's Folly...
...exercise of his profession, he is curiously without legal protection, or social position. According to the whim of the moment the man he interviews may paste him at the first question, or sneer, or smile. If the reporter develops as a result of this a cynical contempt for all the other estates, a perpetual grouch, an inferiority complex, it is not surprising...
Hitherto Carmen in Chicago has meant Mary Garden but it is a Garden whim never to open the season. Instead, as bait. Manager Herbert M. Johnson dangled the announcement of the U. S. debut of Contralto Maria Olszewska...
...four years he wandered through southern France, now poetizing for his connoisseur-host, Charles of Orleans, in the chateau at Blois, now sleeping in haystacks, once sentenced to death at Orleans. Always he pursued women, stole at a whim, strained at a bottomless tankard. And always he was freed from the dungeons (often by the services of the influential priest whom he called "my more than father"). Back in Paris, at the age of 31, he faced the gibbet of Montfaucon for a second time, was again liberated, sentenced to ten years' exile. With a farewell to his impoverished...