Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...functions are as a rapid, discreet translator for the Ambassador (whose French is not rapid), and to keep Paris newshawks from picking on the Embassy. They are so tame just now that before Little Bob sailed on the He de France last week the grateful newshawks gave him a fountain pen, gold mounted, suitably inscribed...
...crusades. We have too little faith, and too much education for great journeyings into the cities of God. But De Soto died far down the Father of the Waters, Henrick Hudson set sail to find a North West Passage, and Ponce de Leon died in his search for a fountain of eternal youth. Something of this spirit drove men out west in the country's early years and sent them across the Panhandle into Texas, that they might fight for life in those far regions. Something of this spirit brings men out of Texas today...
...President Hoover's moratorium proposal-Paris, July 6, 1931." At the same time Ambassador Edge delivered the White House invitation. Swart little Premier Laval graciously accepted the invitation and the inkstands, remarking facetiously: "We are infinitely touched by your gesture. . . . Your compatriots who, we are told, use only fountain pens, will interpret this as a good-natured compliment to the tenacious habits of our ancient civilization." Arrangements were made for the Premier to sail on S. S. lie de France with Ambassador Edge. At first he said he would not take his daughter Jose, 20, with him. But after...
...Long is right?like a fox. He is going at the wrong end of this thing. We should go to the fountain head?that spineless cactus at the head of the Government in Washington. Herbert Hoover and the Republican Party have brought you here today?...
...long or so extensive a look at Milles' handiwork. In fact, nowhere else except in his own garden outside Stockholm has such an array of Milles ever been seen. At the 56th Street Galleries, Manhattan, last year there was a small exhibition. George Fisher Baker Jr. bought a fountain - similar to one in the sculptor's home - for $20,000. Banker Baker set his fountain up in the garden of his Park Avenue town house. Intelligent observers who visit the Milles work this winter will have no trouble in dividing the subjects into two groups. First group exemplifies...