Word: courting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Hines Page, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, turned unsmiling to a tall, worn, pale man who leaned against the mantlepiece, Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary. They sat down, like old friends, and Grey, grim chin propped on folded knuckles, talked...
...August 21, 1939, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, returned by plane to London, fresh from a month's vacation with his wife and nine children spent at an estate famous for its roses, Domain de Ranguin, five miles from Cannes, on the French Riviera. In the two weeks that followed, the red-faced, red-haired Boston Irishman went many times in the footsteps if not in the mood of Walter Page to the red-draped oak-and-leather office in Downing Street. There he saw a man like him only...
...under-veil, over which the respirator could easily be adjusted, 2) a heavier outer-veil which could be pulled back over the head harness of the respirator when the latter is in use." >Canceled was the Salvation Army's farewell party in London's Earl's Court to General Evangeline Booth, for which 25,000 tickets had been sold. >At the domed Church of the Sacred Heart on Paris' Montmartre, Cardinal Verdier blessed the overflow crowd kneeling on the steps. >Arrested for trying to deliver a Bible to Prime Minister Chamberlain, one Robert Edmund Harrison...
...Billings' Bridge, Ont., a man claiming to be a mind reader went to court complaining that his neighbors had been thinking terrible things about...
...Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Robert Peace went to court with her husband, told the judge, "Since I married up with that name, I have been living in full hell." The judge listened, set another day for hearings, shouted after them as they left, "Peace be with...