Word: cordialities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although his face was lined and showed clearly the strain of his position, the 51-year old diplomat seemed cordial and was not at all reluctant to speak of the Far East crisis. He smoked continually but by no means nervously...
...would not be good taste to end the year without telling one Christmas story. Every clever magazine carries a holiday tale, even the "New Yorker." Here is ours; it points out how profoundly cordial is the sentiment of Christmas celebration...
...Author MacNeice does his best work when he is laughing up his Celtic sleeve at the cordial disrespect with which the general run of things inspires him. His letter, Hetty to Nancy, turns a camping trip into a near-masterpiece of burlesquerie, describes, among other things, a pneumatic mattress-"sighing like something out of A. E. Housman;" the three kinds of Central Iceland scenery-"Stones, More Stones, and All Stones;" a tourist party of middle-aged Englishwomen - "with ankles lapping down over their shoes and a puglike expression of factitious enthusiasm combined with the determination...
...House one day last week was Floyd Leslie Carlisle, chairman of not one but two of the country's great utility companies, Consolidated Edison and Niagara Hudson Power. President Roosevelt is not on intimate terms with any powermen but Mr. Carlisle's and the President's cordial dislike of each other is something of a record, dating as it does from pre-New Deal days, when Franklin Roosevelt was Governor of New York State, Mr. Carlisle's bailiwick. But now, with a Grade A business recession on his hands, the President, like Mr. Hoover...
...Tsar, whose wife is a daughter of the King of Italy, was reported to be looking personally into Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's new and most cordial relations with II Duce. London's leftist tipster sheet The Week had Greece's King George "afraid he has cancer. His mother Queen Sophie died of it. And before that her mother too. ... If the British doctors' opinion is unfavorable, then the King will abdicate in January." At dingy but swank Brown's Hotel, where George II was staying, Leopold III called and Their Majesties took...