Word: acquitania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Count Lazlo Szechenyi, Hungarian Minister to the U. S. and husband to the onetime Gladys Vanderbilt, arrived in Manhattan on the Acquitania. Ship-news reporters rushed up to him hoping for a felicitous utterance, since friends of Count Karolyi have credited the Hungarian Minister with inspiring the State Department's attitude toward the Karolyis, Count and Countess. The reporters blurted their questions. The Minister diplomatically replied: "The exclusion of that man is a matter for your State Department...
...Agnew, director of Punch: " Sailing from New York on the Acquitania, I said to interviewers: ' There are too many gigglers in America and I feel that it requires too little effort to make Americans laugh. Americans are gayer and enjoy themselves more than the British, because America is more prosperous than England...
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