Word: citizenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or any other non-state person. Since Sir Esme is dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the prospect was presented of lesser Ambassadors and Ministers flocking to Capitol Hill to confer with lesser Senators. This prospect recalled the trouble of 1793 when Citizen Genet, as Republican France's first Minister to the U. S., attempted to make a popular appeal for his country over the grim neutrality of George Washington's Cabinet, thereby causing his downfall as a diplomat and prompting the passage of the Logan Act to prevent, under penalties...
This reply was too general to please International Falls, where the late Citizen Virkula was not regarded as an "international criminal." Editorial writers read the President's statement and wrote: "Is that all" . . . "inadequate" . . . "It is not enough for the President to 'deplore' ". . . "the President's answer is as full of holes as Henry Virkula...
...swum twice across the Niagara River, been champion swordsman of the British Army, Mayor of Maidenhead, chairman of the Fresh Water Fish Committee. But it is as chairman of the Pilgrims that he is now best known to the world. As such he publicly dines some prominent U. S. citizen nearly once a month.* Last week he and the Pilgrims had one of the most notable banquets of their career...
Most prominent of U. S. college graduates who did not attend their June college reunions was President Hoover. Another absentee was Chief Justice William Howard Taft. Among the most distinguished who did attend were Citizen Calvin Coolidge, who marched in the Amherst commencement parade last week, and Banker John Pierpoint Morgan who, last week, returned to Harvard for the 40th reunion of his class...
...next three decades Curaçao was no more, to the average citizen, than the name of a liqueur?an infusion of bitter orange peel so easily made and so eminently potable that to the fury of Dutch sour-orange growers, it is successfully imitated in nearly every country in the world...