Word: attendent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strict etiquette consecrates the whole afternoon to such boasting, but Emperor Power of Trinity rose at 3 p. m. to attend Ethiopian patriotic dramas in which the Ethiopians were invariably victorious...
...Cutting. Mrs. Goelet entertained the Grand Duke at her home. Mrs. Fish invited guests to meet the Grand Duke at a dinner and ball, but refused to include Jimmie Cutting. Mrs. Goelet demanded that he be invited. Mrs. Fish refused. Mrs. Goelet therefore would not let the Grand Duke attend the Fish party given in his honor. Unwilling to disappoint guests anxious to see royalty, Harry Lehr masqueraded as the Tsar of Russia, made a joke of the conflict, amused the absent Grand Duke...
...unemotional men and women have agreed with me that Senator Robinson can be overwhelmingly re-elected next year without making a speech or writing a letter. As a matter of fact if pressing public business demands Senator Robinson's attention next summer, his friends know that he will attend to it while we with similar loyalty to the highest public interest look after the business of returning him to the Senate...
...Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Poet Rudyard Kipling, at whose home the statesman first met his invaluable, bouncing Wife Lucy. Last week sturdy Squire Baldwin, whose hobby is breeding prize pigs, was the only prominent member of His Majesty's Government who did not take time out to attend the Spithead sea pageant. Cousin Kipling, on the other hand, had been so fired by the prospect of this Silver Jubilee Naval Review that he had been grinding away for weeks in an effort to repeat the success of his Recessional, written for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. Last...
...Dimly we recall, or rather sense, a freer day when our forefathers had time to feel the seasons' change in them, to loaf in the warm sunlight and to drink in life like a healthy animal. . . . Our appetites have become too heavy, our inner ear too dulled to attend any call but that of ease or gain...