Word: aquitania
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...British traveler mostly evaded questions about the King & Mrs. Simpson, exclaiming, "It is so cheeky for Americans to want to know about that !" Actress Gertrude Lawrence adroitly turned publicity from Mrs. Simpson to herself. "She certainly won't get any publicity from me !" caroled Miss Lawrence on the Aquitania. "I may not be able to get to the Coronation if I get a suitable Hollywood offer, but if I miss the Coronation I am sure the King will understand ! Of course I'm joking." The perfect strategy was adopted by Lord and Lady Tennyson who, long after their...
First class on the Cunard White Star's S. S. Aquitania and fresh from a costly Thameside London hotel that ebullient Negro romanticist Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the Richard Halliburton of his race, last week got home to Harlem from one more Glorious Adventure. With him he brought a 68-page hand-written manuscript titled, "Why I Resigned from the Abyssinian Army...
...midnight last week the S. S. Aquitania put out from New York carrying three oldsters tucked away securely in three of her best bunks. The gentlemen were London-bound with no time to spare, for they were the U. S. delegates to the 1935 Naval Limitation Conference opening Dec. 9. Only fortnight ago President Roosevelt appointed them. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, chief of the delegation, was named to go because attending conferences is his job. Admiral William Harrison Standley, Chief of Naval Operations, went along because it was Navy business. Undersecretary of State William Phillips was selected because...
...Admiral Standley boarded the Aquitania last week he told the Press: "There will be no surprises in the Conference, probably because we all understand what each nation wants. ... Of course we don't have to agree at this Conference." Then his official conscience pressed upon him and he added: "But it might serve as a stepping stone to a later agreement." With deadlock already achieved, the U. S. State Department resigned itself months ago to the fact that no new treaty would come from this year's Conference. The British accepted the fact but were not resigned...
...Davis. Then with a diplomat's sense of the danger of saying "No," he hastily added: "But I'd rather you did not ask that." Jarless. The third member of the U. S. delegation, being a professional diplomat, said not a word as he boarded the Aquitania. He was the least important member of the delegation, because Mr. Davis was its diplomatic head, Admiral Standley its naval head and he merely a third wheel. His appointment to the delegation is officially to last for only "a few weeks"-i. e., until the troublesome top men of other nations...