Word: experts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Waiting at the dock was svelte, Paris-gowned Mme Suritz, spouse of the Soviet Ambassador to Turkey. She had wired to Moscow well in advance for the more important measurements of the Soviet Cinderellas. ordered ball gowns likely to please Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha, had an expert modiste on hand in Istanbul to fit them. Used to cotton and worse, the Communist wives reveled in silk. "On my word." said a gallant Turkish Foreign Office official last week, "when the great ballroom of the Sultans in Dolmabagche Palace was filled with 3,000 guests in honor of Soviet Russia...
...Washington last week the correspondents who cover the Treasury Department hit upon an item of news which made them wince. It was General Order No. 1 of Acting Secretary Morgenthau, to the effect that hereafter all Treasury news must come from him or a single press relations expert. The order meant that newsmen could no longer gossip, even anonymously, with subordinate Treasury officials who for years had given them many a friendly steer through the complexities of fiscal affairs. Largely because these informal and informative contacts had lately resulted in Treasury news and views out of harmony with the President...
...steps forward to say: "We want the world to know that whether on the football field or in life, Princeton men can take it." Through the hip-and-thigh farce that shook Manhattan audiences with glee glimmers human comedy, warm and amiably observed. The Princeton boys are sly and expert parodies of undergraduates. One sings a burlesque of a Triangle Club song with typical undergraduate ingenuities...
...WANTED, Young man between twenty-four and thirtyfour, expert scavenger, for a party. Must be tall, personable, poised, and above all quick witted. Locality, Boston. Box 362." "YOUNG LADY, 28, who, stationed in a lonely mission station in the jungles of India, has not seen a white man to talk with in a year, would welcome correspondence with a man of 30 or over, interested in books, music, folks and real living, who is as lonely as she is, 'Teddy.' " "YOUNG man, 22, isolated from all congenial companions, desires correspondence with young man interested in literature and music...
...Symphony in Washington. Gloria is a wispy little girl who wears big hair ribbons and oily black corkscrew curls. She took so long to tune her violin that the audience started to titter. But the feeling rapidly changed as the Concerto got under way. Gloria was not only technically expert but her playing had a simple persuasive quality that touched the audience deeply. Father and Mother Perkins are making a pianist of their son, Clemmett Birdsong Perkins...