Word: cordialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paradoxically, two of the most uncompromisingly anti-Communist members of the new French Cabinet, Paul Reynaud and Georges Mandel, were for immediate resumption of those cordial French relations with Joseph Stalin personally which were never so close as when the Premier of France was Conservative Pierre Laval, one of the few foreign statesmen ever entertained by the Kremlin Dictator. With a view to aiding France to gain strength as fast as possible in rivalry with Italy and Germany, the assistance of the World's No. 1 Communist is again wanted by Paris...
...quiet town of Fécamp, France, some 25 miles northeast of Le Havre, the Benedictine monks for centuries had a monastery. In 1510 one of the monks, Dom Bernardo Vincelli, discovered that a magnificent cordial could be made by mixing certain herbs with honey, sugar and alcohol. Named "Elixir," the beverage lured King Francis I to Fécamp in 1534 to drink it, was a European favorite by the time of the French Revolution. Then the Benedictine monastery at Fécamp was destroyed, the monks dispersed, the secret of Elixir apparently lost forever. In 1863, however, Monsieur...
...Maintain close and cordial relations with Britain, the League of Nations and the Soviet Union...
...strong instinct of the Dartmouth student body to be cordial and welcome alumni and friends to full participation in Carnival festivities has made it necessary for the College to prevent the overcrowding of fraternity dances and to fix the responsibility for invited guests by requiring that admission be restricted to those extended formal invitation by the fraternity through its officers...
...late Newton Diehl Baker, good Episcopalian, the N. C. J. C. last week launched its tenth anniversary celebration. For this, President Roosevelt, honorary chairman of the organization, wrote a letter declaring that "philosophies dominant in totalitarian states must not be allowed to disrupt the cordial relationships which now exist among Protestants, Catholics and Jews in America...