Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christian G. Rakovsky, head of the Russian delegation to the conference and Russian Chargé d'Affaires in London, is a handsome, clean-shaven Bolshevik...
British claims were said to approximate $5,000,000,000. To offset this, the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires, M. Christian Georgyevitch Rakovsky, was reputed to have filed a claim...
...Eighth Biennial Conference of the Young Women's Christian Association, in Manhattan. This was a truly international affair, in which women from all over the world?white, saffron, café-au-lait?took part. Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy, came unexpectedly from Washington to deliver an address, at the instance of Mrs. Frederick Paist, his sister and President of the national organization. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., celebrated the convention by giving an international house-party for a number of delegates?including Countess Elsa Bernadotte, niece of the King of Denmark, and Mrs. H. C. Mei, head...
Received a letter from General Feng? (Chinese Christian Soldier) who had been elected a delegate, but whose services the Chinese President could not afford to lend...
Aside from the sentimental objection to calling Messieurs Washington, Clemenceau, Cohan, and the pullman porter by a common Christian name there seems to be no valid basis for the Society's efforts. No other appellation but "George" will do for the porter. He can not be expected to reply to "Pat" or "Mike", nor even "Hans" or "Fritz". He is usually too old to be called "boy" and too young to be hailed as "old man". And furthermore, he is too important a personage to be addressed by any title but one which traditionally connotes dignity and respect...