Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appointed, he has served at the Washington Embassy twice: from 1905 to 1907, as Second Secretary under Sir Henry M. Durand; from 1919 to 1920 as Councilor of the Embassy under Viscount Grey of Fallodon and Sir Auckland Geddes. A more personal tie to the U. S. is the fact that Ambassador Ronald has married two daughters of U. S. citizens. His first wife was Martha Cameron, daughter of onetime Senator J. Donald Cameron of Pennsylvania. The present Lady Lindsay was Elizabeth Sherman Hoyt, daughter of the late famed stockbroking Colgate Hoyt of Manhattan, and grandniece of General William Tecumseh...
...with the present British Ambassador at Washington, courtly Sir Esme Howard. Both are Knights Commander of the Bath, both are Knights Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, both have an imposing row of subsidiary ribbons to blazon their lapels. Of interest to Washington diners-out is the fact that unlike Sir Esme Howard, Sir Ronald Lindsay is not a teetotaler, will almost certainly abolish the rule against the importation of embassy liquor...
...point of fact Wilhelm II kept in telephonic touch with the hospital up to the last moment, sent a wreath to the funeral, appeared more than most of his entourage to have forgiven Princess Victoria, once his "Little Vickie"* and favorite sister, for the shame and ridicule she brought upon the House of Hohenzollern by marrying Subkoff?a gigolo...
...aided by the office porter and the cashier, young Ivan. Next morning they find .themselves, with a large wad of government money, and in a most regrettable condition, on the train to Leningrad. Horrified, they immediately get drunk again. Never quite sober, always refusing to face the fact, they wander about Leningrad from hotel to nightclub, from the city to the country, and finally, in despairing, shaky soberness, return to Moscow and jail. A typical scene...
...exuberance displayed by Harvard supporters at the victory over Yale was due perhaps not so much to the fact that the traditional rival was beaten but that the Harvard team had fulfilled earlier predictions of latent strength and coordination. The defeat of a major rival in these days is only part of a composite goal that Harvard teams strive for and usually gain. To produce an unbeaten team is no longer the all in all of Harvard athletic policy nor the sole aim of Harvard supporters. For it is most certainly true that the idea of sports for the sake...