Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Round-faced John Moore Cabot, 28, Harvard-Oxford graduate, Boston socialite secretary to the U. S. legation at Santo Domingo, crammed a dingy felt hat on his head, shook hands with his chief, U. S. Minister Charles B. Curtis, stepped into his runabout coupe, and raced snorting out of town...
Twice within the year he barely escaped notoriety: 1) when he announced that, as a friendly gesture, he would import under his diplomatic privilege no more liquors and wines for the British Embassy:† 2) when as the dean of the diplomatic corps he announced that Mrs. Edward Everett Gann...
"It will be recalled that Vice President Curtis, on the eve of his nomination in Kansas City, said that Hoover, if elected, would take the next steamer for England.
"Those who, like Vice President Curtis . . ., accused President Hoover of being pro-British on the basis of his long residence under the British flag, are reading in the Stimson proposals substantiation of their suspicions. . . .
Cyrus H. K. Curtis, of the Curtis Publishing Company and the Curtis-Martin newspapers, was awarded the gold medal for distinguished contemporary service to advertising. Mr. Curtis earned this medal because of strict adherence throughout his distinguished career as a publisher to the requirement, which he initiated, of high standards...