About 1926, the year the “Mauve Decade” was published, the printableness of this epithet constituted one of the sharpest battles in a war of taste between old-fashioned American reticence and a truculent frankness advocated, and practised, by the younger generation, then in defiant rebellion against a good many former standards of conventionality.

For her good performance in the examination, her teacher gave her ten merits.

A large figure of Budh, with his attendants, is carved, innovatingly it is said, in front of the shrine.

The line of conduct we have pursued for the last forty years in dealing with Affghanistan and Persia has been most injudicious.