Word: ambassadors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Spencer Eddy '95 has been appointed private secretary to Colonel John Hay, United States Ambassador to Great Britain...
...looked with jealous eyes on the colony, and at one time war between England and Spain seemed unavoidable. Spain's hostility was averted, however, by the betrothal of the young Charles to the Spanish Infanta. From this time King James came completely under the control of the Spanish ambassador, Gondomar, and it was by his advice that James let seven years pass without calling Parliament together. The popular discontent with the royal policy found constant embodiment in the discussions at the meetings of the Company...
...Phelps, formerly United States Ambassador to England, will preside at the debate next Friday night...
...Common Law." At the dinner held in the Gymnasium after the oration, speeches were made by President Carter, Dean Langdell, Sir Frederick Pollock, Justice Horace Gray '45, Justice Henry B. Brown L. S. '59, Judge O. W. Holmes '61, Joseph H. Choate '52, S. Kurino L. S. '81, Japanese Ambassador, and President Eliot. President Eliot announced that the Corporation would accede to Professor Langdell's desire to retire from the office of dean and be relieved of one third of his teaching work, and would continue to him his full present salary...
...plain enough in the word itself-first corrupted from perruque to periwig, and then contracted for convenience to wig. Chouse, in the sense of to cheat, carries us back to the days of James First, when an impostor palmed himself off upon the people of London as a Turkish ambassador, or Chiaus. That the English learned some of their seamanship from the Italians is plain from the word mizzenmast (la mezzana), and the order avast! from basta! That the English taught the Italians to build railroads the traveller is informed when he hears il treno in Tuscany, and reads...