Word: cordiales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Handsome, dapper Capt. Anthony Eden, Lord Privy Seal of Britain, and White Hope of the Foreign Office, is sent to Paris, Berlin, and Rome to explain in private conversations the advantages of the British Plan for the peace of Europe. Berlin and Rome are cordial, but the newly installed Doumergue cabinet in Paris refuses to budge. Before France will agree to any disarmament she insists that international control over Germany's rearmament be installed, that Nazi Storm Troops and other semimilitary bodies be dissolved...
...your March 19 issue on p. 14 you speak of Circuit Judge Allen as having "a cordial handshake and myopic eyes." From the appearance of her eyes in the accompanying photograph, I would suggest that the Judge is hyperopic, not myopic; in other words "farsighted" not "near-sighted...
...Musical Courier. Two years later she returned to Cleveland as the Plain Dealer's music editor. New York University gave her an LL. B. An able feminist, a Dry, an opponent of war, she soon became a heroine to women. A quiet, thin-lipped woman with a cordial hand shake and myopic eyes, she rises at 5:30 a. m., exercises to a phonograph before going to work. Weekends she hikes. Her decisions from the Supreme Court bench have been learned, middle-of-the-roadish. Had President Roosevelt withheld his appointment one fortnight, he would have given Judge Allen...
...business being thus closed, the Members adjourned to the City Tavern, dined together and took a cordial leave of each other; after which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with, and received the papers from the Secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous w[or]k which had been executed, after not less than five, lor; large part of the time Six, and sometimes 7 hours sitting every day, [except] Sundays and the ten days adjournment . . . for more than four months...
After a brief, cordial chat, Chancellor Adolf made Carpenter Ignatz superintendent of the building in Munich where the chief Nazi newspaper is published. While Ignatz Jr. and Mrs. Westenkirchner burst into sobs of joy, Ignatz shook the Chancellor's hand at parting, then radiantly exclaimed to Dr. Hanfstaengl...