Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Object of Magda de Fontanges' visit to the U. S. was to capitalize on her misbehavior by appearing as a show girl at New York's French Casino cabaret. When the Normandie, on which she had saved part of her first-class expense money by traveling tourist, docked in New York, immigration officials refused to let her disembark. Next day, Magda de Fontanges was whisked to Ellis Island where, in an interview with ship news reporters she declared, "My only interest is to obtain a gainful occupation for the purpose of making an honorable living." Same...
...that was all. Not until he was several years older did he wake up and start courting in his own way Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid.* Completely eluding news gossips who kept marrying him off to other princesses, Leopold would set out from Brussels traveling third class and carrying a small satchel as if going only for a short trip, would arrive at a country station in southeastern Sweden to be met by nobody and walk off with his satchel up to the rambling country house of his prospective Swedish father-in-law. In the nine years of Astrid...
...Bremen docked in Manhattan. On board were specially-ordered supplies of red carnations, English tea, barreled drinking water, Westphalian hams, steaks, cutlets, liver paste, and 1,049 passengers, some of whom had transferred at the last moment from cabin to tourist class. In a freshly refurbished suite (80-82) on A Deck had crossed not the two people who were to have made the voyage elaborately newsworthy and whose names still headed the official passenger list-Der Herzog und die Herzogin von Windsor-but Socony- Vacuum's Vice President Edwy R. Brown & wife of Dallas...
Died. Admiral Baron Sotokichi Uriu, 80, last surviving Japanese graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy (Class of 1881), campaigner in the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars; in Odawara, Japan. Last week Emperor Hirohito posthumously decorated him with the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun with Paulownia Flowers...
...before, but the Vagabond has relatives. Two in particular. These two are gentlemen: one second cousin on his mother's side and an uncle-by-marriage. Three weeks ago they assailed the Vagabond's serenity (at that time he was tasting the wicked but delectable fruits of a class-cutting spree) by sending him letters on the same day. Each letter demanded in slightly officious terms, peculiar to the writing of middle-aged college men, that he obtain a ticket to the Harvard-Yale game for "your loving Cousin Arthur" and for "your ever-faithful Uncle Henry, as a favor...