Word: doak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...witty, gay, Edda Ciano has little respect for the conventions. In Shanghai she picked up much U. S. slang from Navy officers' wives and subsequently shocked many a diplomatic dowager with her indiscriminate use of "boloney." Once she surprised Sir Eric Drummond (now Lord Perth) by saying "Oakie doak, Sir Eric!" Her first-born child, Fabrizio, she nicknamed the "Little Chink." She caused an uproar at a full-dress diplomatic dinner in Peking by showing up in a tailored suit while her husband wore a dinner coat...
Back in Rome, the Cianos started cutting a social swath and Edda surprised the British colony with the "English" she had learned from U. S. Marine officers' wives in Shanghai. One of the Countess' expressions was "oakie doak." Her husband at this time became Il Capo del Officia Stampa del Capo del Governo (The Head of the Press Office of the Head of the Government), later was given the rank of Minister for Press & Propaganda. He never could understand why foreign correspondents do not write with the same pro-Fascist zeal which came naturally to him when...
Died. Ethelbert Stewart, 79, longtime (1887-1932) authoritative U. S. Labor Department statistician; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington. Rebuked for disputing Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak's optimistic statement that employment was rising in 1932, he retired, drawled: "I have had a tin can tied to the end of my coattail...
...their connivance that the aviation companies were able to defraud the government; it would perhaps be enlightening to investigate the financial connections between these two gentlemen and their clients. At any rate, Mr. Brown may have the satisfaction of reflecting that his late colleague, the unspeakable Mr. Doak, is no longer without a rival...
...boys." Boston was too petty for the imaginative Mr. Brown; he went off for a pleasant little jaunt to Paris on government funds and almost succeeded in bringing back a Turkish dancer. In between times he made trips to Washington to take liquor to his uncle, the late Mr. Doak, Secretary of Labor, "who had heart disease...