Word: curtseys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Dorothy Thompson was about ten her stepmother used to call her and her younger brother and sister into the parlor and make them bow and curtsey to visitors. One day Dorothy came in doing a cartwheel, displaying her panties to six ladies of the Methodist Church. That habit has persisted and is one reason why mercurial Miss Thompson will never be the first woman President, although she and Eleanor Roosevelt are undoubtedly the most influential women...
Last of the five royal courts of the season, and first that rheumatic George V was well enough to attend, occurred last week at Buckingham Palace. Of all the debutantes to make their curtseys, the most triumphant was Margaret Henriette McReynolds of Tennessee, daughter of U. S. Conference Delegate Sam McReynolds. Because it is obviously impossible to receive all the ladies attached to all the delegations the Lord Chamberlain's office announced that none of the ladies of the World Economic Conference would be presented. But Miss McReynolds had already received her "command" to attend. She had bought...
Among a score of U. S. women who will don long gloves, satin, tri-feathered headdresses to curtsey in stiff social homage to their British Majesties at this year's May Courts: Mrs. David K. E. Bruce (daughter and hostess of Ambassador Mellon); Miss Mary Elizabeth Beebe (daughter of Philadelphia Socialite Lucius Beebe); Mrs. Eugene H. Dooman and Mrs, David Edward Finley (wives of U. S. Embassymen); Miss Winifred Holt Bloodgood (daughter of famed Cancer Researcher Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins University); Miss Denise Livingston (of New York) ; Miss Natica Nast (daughter of Publisher Conde Nast). Because Ailsa Mellon...
American women who curtsey three times at Court. Yet in at least half the hearts in Ireland burns a fierce hatred of the Emblem of Monarchy. To uphold this mere emblem Canadian Premier Bennett has not had to use bullets; but Irish President Cosgrave has, by due process of law. Every year of the past decade batches of Irishmen who wanted a republic badly enough to fight for it have been shot. Spattering lead creates the practical difference between Canadian "dominion status" and Irish, for there is no legal difference...
...ignoring his appendix as long as was humanly possible, he found himself at the very last moment unable to be crowned. His Coronation was postponed, took place two months later on Aug 9, 1902. Last week Miss Dawes, luckier than King Edward, was able to advance upon Their Majesties, curtsey to the King, curtsey to the Queen, and retire in good order. Next day her appendix was removed by Sir Crisp English, operating at the U. S. Embassy in Princes Gate. So successful was this operation that Ambassador Dawes sailed the following day on the Bremen to grapple with Chicago...