Word: cordialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like an aged Byron he continued to have love affairs, during one of which he was almost shot. Finally in honor of his approaching 75th birthday he went on a final grand tour. As it had when he was 20, Paris greeted him hysterically. This time London, too, was cordial; Victoria invited him to Windsor Castle. All Europe held concerts in his honor. On his way from Luxembourg to Bayreuth to hear Tristan a honeymooning couple entered his second-class compartment, leaned gaily out of the open window. Franz Liszt caught a chill. At Bayreuth it developed into pneumonia...
...motored across the island, visited abandoned rum distilleries, more subsistence homesteads. Only untoward event was a parade in Christiansted, staged by the local Democratic Club. where marchers carried banners demanding the removal of Governor Pearson, the appointment of a Democrat. His fondness unshaken, the President bade the Governor a cordial farewell. The Houston, with the two destroyers in her wake, streaked away once more over the blue waters, cutting a long diagonal across the Caribbean, toward Cartagena, Colombia...
...more than pleased to be able to be back at Harvard for the 25th reunion of my class," he continued. "The reception which has been accorded me has been extremely cordial and I am grateful for all the favors extended to me. It has been the meat enjoyable and successful vacation that I have had in years...
...armament makers. Schneider installed engineers and managers at the Putilov works in St. Petersburg. The Krupps did likewise. French newspapers screamed that the Krupps were spying. German newspapers screamed that the French were spying. But in 1914 found Schneider and Krupp engineers side by side on terms of cordial friendship, overseeing ordnance manufacture on behalf of Nicholas H, Czar of all the Russias
...Presbyterians in their pews, and Methodists at the rail use individual glasses, cordial size, with morsels of leavened bread. Many an Anglo-Catholic Episcopalian apes the Catholic practice of communion in one form. But opponents of the common cup, who plan to take their battle to the Episcopal general convention next autumn, have no intention of departing from good Episcopal methods. They favor "intinction," as practiced in the Eastern Orthodox Church and in some U. S. parishes, where there are tuberculous communicants. By intinction, the wafer is dipped in the wine, handed by the priest to the communicant...