Word: cachet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nominated, I. H. C., Ltd. could understand Director Owen's willingness, which he presently disclosed, to accept ?30,000 for the conduct of "experiments" at his Institute preliminary to the four-year plan. Impressive letters on stationery headed Treasury and Imperial Conference gave Swindler Owen the cachet not only of honor but of friendship with the great. Soon Dr. Owen got Oxford to give him an honorary M. A. He pretended that he already had the rank of Doctor (of Engineering), a rank highly esteemed in Europe.* He went about Oxford arm-in-arm with England's intellectually...
...sombre melodrama about a young woman who leaves a Russian general to become the mistress of a lieutenant and who goes back to the general again to save her lover, a cheat at cards, from public disgrace. It is familiar material, unreal and overacted, but stamped with the European cachet of original direction and distinguished by the blonde beauty of Brigitte Helm. Best shot: the introductory sequence, repeated again at the end, in which the spectator follows the camera's eye through a villa apparently empty, through a room and a hallway, and at last to a balcony on which...
...Smith, son of a New York farmer, claimed that he had talked with a radiant nocturnal visitor who caused him to be led, by divine guidance, to a lonely hill near the village of Manchester, N. Y., where he discovered numerous engraved and lettered plates of gold in a cachet of stone. Annually for four years he returned to look at the plates; then they were delivered to him by his spectral visitor. In 1830 there was first published The Book of Mormon, purporting to be a translation of the plates accomplished with divinely acquired erudition by humble Joseph Smith...