Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Astor, hostess of the famed appeasement-favoring Cliveden Set. But Russia let it be known that since Russia and Germany have no common borders, the Soviet signature was useless without Poland's, and suggested an anti-Nazi conference. This was apparently too near to definite action for the ever-cautious British. The realistic French Quai d'Orsay looked upon the proposed British declaration as a typical instance of Anglo-Saxon diplomatic piety. French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet did, however, use the State visit last week of President and Mme Albert Lebrun ("Mr. and Mrs. Brown" to Londoners...
With the Cabinet split on a fundamental issue, with more newspapers than ever striking out against the Government, with more M. P.s than ever distrustful of British official policy, there were also more rumors than ever of a change in the Government itself. Former Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden still talked of a national Cabinet. Mr. Chamberlain was represented as wanting to have a Laborite in the Government, but the Labor Party wanted no part of the Prime Minister...
...pretender to the Austro-Hungarian throne, entered objections. Blustering Field Marshal Hermann Goring answered the objections by calling the Archduke "this comic boy." Nazi Administrator Josef Bürckel dubbed him "Otto the Last." The Nazi police issued a warrant for his arrest for high treason should "His Majesty" ever be caught in Reich territory. Otto remained in Belgium, where he has lived with his mother, onetime Empress Zita, for the last nine years. Last week in Paris, after Führer Hitler had seized several more big slices of the Pretender's "empire" (Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia), Archduke Otto...
...curious reporter has ever had a peek at the Grand Council's list but best Rome gossip says Mussolini's successor is likely to be Signor Balbo, Governor of Libya...
...story is in the title. Katharine acted as a child, as a schoolgirl, in art theatre groups, in stock; at length-and ever more triumphantly-on Broadway. As a neatly blown-up scrapbook of her career, I Wanted to Be an Actress is acceptable enough. But beyond that, the reader draws a blank. Either Katharine Cornell, in her devotion to her profession, has lacked time to study things and people or, having done so, she is resolved to keep mum. Dozens of names, from Greta Garbo's to Alexander Woollcott's, from David Belasco's to Orson...