Word: cordiales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Biblical origin, and no mere ornamental epithet. When Mr. Lowell became President of Harvard, she entered at once into the life of this most complex of universities. She occupied herself with its social affairs, was helpful in the work of the Harvard Dames, and welcomed students with cordial informality to the Sunday afternoon receptions. But more than the graces of the temporary hostess were hers: she made the President's House a center of hospitality throughout the year for the University and for the legion of visitors, whose number reached its peak at Commencement. She was accustomed to visit students...
...Bobby Jones, who does not play much golf in the winter, was in it, warming up for the spring events. When Jones plays in any tournament, even if he is only out for practice, he usually wins. To beat him would mean a lot to Smith. Jones was very cordial when they met-seemed pleased that they were going to share the same room while they were in Savannah. Whether they talked much about golf when they were in that room alone together nobody knows-possibly it was as well if they didn't, for at the beginning...
Shocked were ladies of the Spanish court, and particularly Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie (granddaughter of Britain's arch-stickler, Queen Victoria) when Miss Mary Pickford and Mr. Douglas Fairbanks were actually received on terms of cordial and convivial intimacy by sporting King Alfonso XIII's closest pal, exalted Jacobo Stuart Fitz-James, Duke of Alba, Constable of Navarre and 14 times a grandee of Spain (TIME...
Moscow's conclusion seems a mere deduction from the fact that U. S.-Mexican relations have not for a generation been so cordial as now. True, the President-Elect of Mexico, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, was accused of "going to Wall Street and Washington for his orders" when he paid his goodwill visit to President Hoover (TIME, Dec. 30), but there is no proof that he ever received any orders...
Shortly before he received President Hoover's cordial greeting apropos Haiti's Independence, President Borno had amiably observed to U. S. correspondents...