Word: distin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birthday. The 40's are mature, the 50's dignified, the 60's distin- guished, the 70's venerable. Last week the only living U. S. citizen besides Calvin Coolidge who has been President of the U. S., reached his 70's-Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court, happy, healthy, at his summer home on Murray Bay, Quebec...
...tarnished red and gold -the Great Hall of the British Foreign Office. At either side three tall windows, dull-bright with winter sunshine. Down the centre a huge table, covered with blue baize and vermilion-splashed by three official despatch boxes. Around the table a group of the most distin- guished statesmen in Europe-all clad in mourning (for England's Dowager Queen). At smaller tables other statesmen and ladies-like- wise in black. At one end of the room eight rows of seats, tiered like a grandstand, for the press. Above and over all, the unearthly white-green...