Word: curtise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Vice President Charles Curtis was 70. The Senate celebrated with speeches. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon gave him a birthday dinner party. The Senate festivities started when New York's Senator Copeland, a physician, predicted that the Vice President was still physically good for many another year...
Replied Vice President Curtis from the rostrum: "I love each and every one of you. I assure each and every one of you of my best wishes for these kindnesses."
¶ Last week President Hoover gave a state dinner to Vice President Curtis, escorted Mrs. Edward Everett Gann to the seat of honor at his right. Present were many distinguished guests. Absent were all government officials and their wives.
Curtis Arnoux Peters ("Peter Arno"), famed caricaturist for The New Yorker (weekly smartchart), quarreled bitterly in the middle of the night with his wife Lois Long ("lipstick"), colyumist for The New Yorker ("tables for two"). They told the police that a deep cut in his cheek was a slip-of...
The portraits of American judges and lawyers are grouped in the Langdell south lecture room. The center of the south wall has a painting of Chief Justice Taney by Leutze, who painted the familiar "Washington Crossing the Delaware." The portrait of the great chief justice is regarded as notable; it...