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Word: doyen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wine. Most smart U. S. citizens have stopped at one or another of his luxury hotels- the Berkeley, Claridge's, the Savoy-but few know that the presumably go-getting General Director of these up-to-date hostels is in fact contemplative Mr. Reeves-Smith, venerable doyen of British wine connoisseurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Paladin of Wine | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...Greed." As doyen of the Corps Diplomatique, the Spanish Ambassador Count José Maria Quiñones de Leon delivered himself of an ornate bouquet of phrases into one of which he startlingly introduced the wasp word "greed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Under Two Flags | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Michael, the doyen of all Bloomsbury felines, was quite as proud and pompous as the gloomy edifice he guarded. Residents of Bloomsbury, whose suspicion of strangers is chronic and world-famed, reminded each other last week that "Old Mike" spoke to nobody, and would only allow two people to pet him: his owner, the official gatekeeper, and that eminent Egyptologist Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Hiley's Elegy on Cat Mike treats of this in the stanza: He cared for none - save only two: For these he purred, for these he played, And let himself be stroked, and laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cat Mike | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Died. Sir Squire Bancroft, 85, "doyen of the English" stage, for 20 years manager of the Prince o' Wales's and Haymarket Theatres, player of over 500 roles, knighted by Queen Victoria; in London, after a lingering illness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 3, 1926 | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

...President then turned toward the crowd and the microphones. He was wearing a light overcoat, but no hat. During the ensuing speech of 40 minutes, Ambassador Riano of Spain, Doyen of the Diplomatic corps, deemed it proper that he, too, should remain uncovered since the President was hatless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day of Days | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

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