Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Never before had the Ambassador of a foreign power received in France this military homage. With a nice discrimination, however, President Gaston Doumergue was present only by proxy. A nearly inflexible protocol decrees that the President personally attend only the funerals of highest dignitaries of state-and thus far the rule has been broken only for Ferdinand Foch...
...Dawes Committee (see International); Aristide Briand, the cello-voiced, bushy-eyebrowed Foreign Minister of France; and Mr. John Ridgely Carter, Paris Morgan Partner, representing J. Pierpont Morgan. Although suffering from a heavy cold, Mr. Morgan at the last moment disregarded the advice of physicians and sped by motor to attend the simple service held for Mr. Herrick at the Paris Pro-Cathedral. That edifice is capable of holding less than 1,000, and an appalling crush ensued...
...cause of Nationalism!" Seemingly Li of Canton was in league with the rebels, a clique of military leaders with their base of operations in what are called the Wuhan cities (see below). The incautious Li had come to Nanking (guaranteed as to his life by Wu) in order to attend the third annual Nationalist Party Congress. The Congress adjourned last week after passing resolutions unqualifiedly condemning the Wuhan clique, directing that Li be kept in jail, and entrusting the fullest military authority to President Chiang. Since the wily president had unquestionably "packed" the congress, its actions surprised...
...broad farce portraying the woes of an unmarried father with a child on his hands. "Little Accident" is still, after many months, doing big business. And so also is that finest of mystery plays Milne's "The Perfect Alibi". Hoboken offers two revived melodramas, quite the fashionable thing to attend, and there is another resurrected thriller down on the Bowery. Just arrived in town are Drinkwater's latest play. "Bird in Hand", "Mystery Square", a dramatization of Stevenson's "New Arabian Nights" and a farce, "He Walked in Her Sleep...
...favor of having dinners on time? Will you arrive punctually at the hour set? Will you get to dances on time? If you accept a dinner invitation will you really attend...