Word: cordiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looking and so young." On her recent first trip to Manhattan, she surprised her transport pilot with her ready ear for smoking-car subtleties. So far she has said nothing in public except "H-m-m-m-m-m-m-m." This is delivered in the tone of a cordial spinster to the man under...
Planning at Chelm. As the mission winged to Cairo and on to Teheran, where a Russian plane and a cordial invitation from the Kremlin awaited them, the new Polish Committee of Liberation, from its provisional seat at Chelm, busily shaped Poland's future. The Committee issued a history-making manifesto, which outlined not only the Polish, but presumably the Russian blueprint for Eastern Europe above the Carpathians...
...great skill-when he wishes to be conservative-as La Toilette (see cut), a serene, informally classic figure piece painted in 1905. Picasso's endless experimentalism was received as variously as it is everywhere. And the Mexican professionals who spoke out about the show were anything but cordial in their temper...
...door of No. 10 Downing Street swung open for Polish Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk. Around a large table in the Cabinet Room he sat with Prime Minister Winston Churchil, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, others. For an hour he talked of his Washington visit, his five cordial meetings with President Roosevelt. The conference ended in an air of optimism, subdued but real. The men at this meeting really believed that the Polish-Russian feud might soon be ended...
Last week Dictator Martínez surmounted the worst crisis of his career. His people are cowed again. His official relations with the U.S. are cordial (he judiciously declared war on the Axis the day after Pearl Harbor). Still secure in his fortress-palace, he paces his bedroom through the night while gun crews keep watch on the roof and new-made ghosts glare in through the windows...