Word: courting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...royal entertainment for President and Mme Albert Lebrun in London's India Office fortnight ago, one of the entertainers (the saucy French actor, Sacha Guitry, who has often taken the parts of famous court intriguers) stepped up to Queen Elizabeth and murmured in a low voice, "I have a favor to ask of Your Majesty. I should be very grateful if you would persuade M. Lebrun to run for President again." The Queen said she would do what she could...
...domestic or foreign, are impersonated and lampooned with impunity. Appearing in New York this season are Adolf Hitlers, Benito Mussolinis, Joseph Stalins. In other seasons "appearances" have been made by King George V and Queen Mary, the Duke of Windsor, President & Mrs. Roosevelt, the Roosevelt Cabinet, the Supreme Court...
...care what sentence I get," said Prisoner Peter Stuart in the dock of a London court last week, "because the fight will go on." Peter got 15 years. Michael Joseph Mason got 17. Seven of their friends got 59½ among them. Their crime: being good soldiers of the Irish Republican Army-i.e., bomb-planters...
...from cruel and wanton consumption." Meanwhile Robert F. Sellar, president of Boston's Animal Rescue League, threatened to send agents to arrest goldfish swallowers if college authorities did not stop it. Said he: "This is not a subject for levity. I hesitate to bring such a matter to court, but we won't sidestep the issue. There have been too many complaints...
...dignified blond man climbed to the witness stand in the Del Rio, Tex. court house, stroked his goatee with a white, diamond-starred hand and announced:"I am the man who originated the goat gland operation." It was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, famed Kansas "rejuvenator", who for the fourth time was suing Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's publication Hygeia. Dr. Fishbein, who at the moment had his back turned on Plaintiff Brinkley, appeared unconcerned over Brinkley's demand for $250,000. Last year in Hygeia Dr. Fishbein described Brinkley as a "quack...