Word: feathered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years later he was again nominated for the Supreme Court-the second man twice appointed to it*-he was quite a different figure. He had left the Court in 1916 to campaign unsuccessfully against Woodrow Wilson, a campaign in which he was called "The Human Icicle" and "The Animated Feather Duster." He had served as Secretary of State to the unfortunate Mr. Harding and the curt Mr. Coolidge, had achieved a genuine-diplomatic triumph-the 5-5-3 naval limitation treaty which for over a decade put a stop to the competitive building of warships. He had also won himself...
...gone through one more confusing transformation. On the private side, Charles the Baptist, the human icicle and animated feather duster Chilly Charlie had become one of Washington's favorite dinner guests. He and Mrs. Hughes go out only on Saturday nights and are dated up months ahead.† Still not a gregarious man, he is a definitely affable and agreeable oldster who chuckles much in whiskers, and the twinkle in his eye is really there. On the public side he has come to represent something new to liberals. Besides voting on the liberal side in pre-New Deal cases...
...means satisfied with this single feather in his cap, Dr. Aras did not go straight home but blinked his way across Europe, stopped off at Milan for a head-to-head with Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Europe's youngest foreign minister. These two reached an accord ending much of the Italo-Turkish tension which has sprung from Kamal Atatürk's closeness to Stalin. Turkish fears that operations against her might take off from Italy's Dodecanese Islands, and Italian nervousness about Turkey's refortification of the Dardanelles. In substance...
What this formless interlude in French upper-middle-class family life has got is a characteristic, plush-lined Gilbert Miller production and a fine cast of actors. Chief among them is Sir Cedric Hardwicke, never before seen on a U. S. stage. An exponent of the feather-touch, as the timid, pale grey little Parisian father, his gentle intonations and delicate gestures seem to indicate that he is afraid that grosser activity might jar him loose from the stage and send him floating up in the flies. In direct contrast to Sir Cedric's placidity is Irene Browne...
...even more amusing to the general public. Entitled "New York at the Turn of the Century," it presented: a 1902 single-cylinder Oldsmobile, driven by a couple in dusters, goggles, veils, and beside it the elegant open caleche of Mr. Harris Fahnestock containing a frock-coated dandy and his feather-boaed wife. A tandem bicycle with a boomer girl in front, a Norfolk-jacketed scorcher behind. An exhibition of the iron-clad blue serge bathing suits suitable for Far Rockaway in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A genuine Morris chair, a cylinder phonograph, a pianola. Photographs of Olga Nethersole...