Word: constantine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fresh paint stung the nostrils of delegates representing 66 of the 67 recognizable nations of the world.† Twenty clocks warned them to make haste. Without even waiting for King George to arrive, the coal-black delegate of Haiti, gigantic, barrel-chested Constantin Mayard, broached his plan for world prosperity to whoever would listen. ''Everybody ought to drink more rum," advised Delegate Mayard, "and they ought to eat more bananas." Word that the King-Emperor was rising in the Conference lift caused 800 delegates, experts and correspondents to scramble to their feet. Stiff and silent to honor...
Foreign Minister-Baron Constantin von Neurath...
Guest Norman Hezekiah Davis, Democratic handyman of President Hoover abroad, shared with Host MacDonald the chief honors of having brought Guest Baron Constantin von Neurath, the German Foreign Minister, around from a truculent to a co-operative attitude. When the pallid, pompous Baron reached Geneva last week he carried a proposal for increasing Germany's "defensive armaments'' which struck Messrs MacDonald and Davis as an "alarming document." These proposals they had managed...
Foreign Affairs†-Baron Constantin von Neurath...
...into his home, gave him his own studio to work in. worked over him as hard as any horse trainer with a promising yearling. In 1927 the colt came through with a Guggenheim Fellowship. Isamu Noguchi went to Paris and immediately apprenticed himself as a stone cutter to Constantin Brancusi. one of the few sculptors to have a piece of pastry named after...