Word: envoy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George VI had been up once before as King (90 miles from Windsor to Martlesham Heath) when last week he stepped into his scarlet and blue twin-engined Airspeed Envoy. From Sandringham he flew 60 miles to Cranwell, Lincolnshire, to inspect, as Marshal of the Royal Air Force, one of the nation's military aviation colleges. Ponderously, an official announcement said the King would "enplane"* for the trip back to Sandringham. Said British dispatches afterward: "The nation breathed easier tonight when it learned over the wireless that King George had completed safely in blustery conditions his return flight...
...police. Outside the Parliament building a gendarme was overpowered, stabbed in the stomach with his own bayonet. Wild shooting followed, punctuated with cries of "Vive la France! Long live democracy! Down with Fascism! Down with Italy!" While ambulances were taking the wounded to hospitals, Premier Stoyadinovich banqueted the envoy of democratic France, toasted blandly "the Yugoslav-French pact of ten years standing we are happy to renew for five years more. Your Excellency will be able to convince yourself how strong is the friendship for France which is anchored deep in all our hearts...
...Soviet denials, Warsaw papers reported last week the arrival in Warsaw of six agents of the Soviet Secret Police who thoroughly combed the Soviet Embassy, departed for Moscow with six trunks full of supposed evidence against the vanished former Soviet Ambassador to Poland, Jakov K. Davtyan. An exceptional Soviet envoy who has been recalled to Moscow, then sent back to his post as no traitor to Stalin, is Soviet Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander Troyanovsky. a certified...
Summing up. President Roosevelt's envoy told the Brussels Conference...
When rich & pious Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady announced her engagement last February to William J. Babington Macaulay, Irish Free State envoy to the Vatican, it also became known that she was planning to turn over her huge Manhasset estate, "Inisfada." to the Society of Jesus, sell off its reputedly brilliant collection of art. Fortnight ago a posse of New York dealers and collectors' agents trekked through the fragrance of a Long Island spring to "Inisfada," paid 50? a head (for charity) to enter the rambling, 87-room Tudoresque structure, took long, thoughtful looks at its contents before the sale...