Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hotel Grande Bretagne, popular Guest Insull did not repeat the champagne celebration he staged last year when the U. S. lost its first Greek court fight to extradite him (TIME, Jan. 9). "I am tired," he said. "Send up a beefsteak, peas and fruit salad." Taking off shoes and coat in his suite Old Sam Insull dined alone while young Forest Harness digested the Greek Court's 6,000-word decision and conferred with U. S. Minister to Greece Lincoln MacVeagh. Next day, without announcing his visit in advance, Minister MacVeagh descended wrathfully on the Greek Foreign Office, spoke...
...Ramsay MacDonald won Labor's greatest victory in the general election of May 1929 and sent Mr. Bald win packing. Again three years ago the tide was seen to turn when Labor suffered a net loss of 80 municipal seats in November 1930. Scot MacDonald turned his political coat with the tide, joined forces with Conservative Baldwin, announced himself a "National Laborite" (for which he was expelled by the Labor Party) and has carried on as Prime Minister of the "National" (actually Conservative) Government since the Conservative landslide in the last general election (TIME, Nov. 9, 1931). Municipal returns...
Still in no mood to balance France's scandalously unbalanced budget, the Chamber of Deputies warily received last week the new Cabinet of that sleek, nine-lived gourmet, Premier Albert Sarraut (TIME, Nov. 6). Impeccable in a frock-coat freshly pressed as usual, M. Sarraut serenely mounted the tribune, adjusted his gleaming pince-nez and read in a murmur a declaration of policy so carefully prolix and nebulous that it lulled and stupefied all opposition-as smart M. Sarraut intended. The Chamber will be left to face of itself the necessity of balancing the budget, Premier Sarraut indicated. When...
...plot concerns the vagaries of a young man who has fallen in love with an efficient deride of the value of marriage. Her acceptance of a fur coat from his uncle puts her in his disfavor and he marries her sister, really a complicated situation, Like the Victorian hero, the sight of his former beloved married to his uncle (all of which comes in due course of events) sends him, not to Africa in quest of big game, but to South America on an engineering job. The death of his wife at home and of his uncle solve the situation...
...dresses. They never wear out, so when they have seen a few years' service, I put them away and after an interval bring them out again and have them made over. She also sent me two rings, a pair of earrings, some white jade, a white fox coat, and an ermine coat. The Chinese had a very proper idea of gifts!" And a bit of really ancient history: ". . . Instead of saying nothing and letting Nick go to the dinner, I told him the horrid news of the seating, whereat he promptly said he would not go, that...