Word: gangplanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nordica's funeral was in King's Weigh House Chapel in London where she and George Young were married. Her casket was a teakwood trunk, carved to represent a lotus, the flower that she loved best. On his return to Manhattan, George Young walked down the gangplank bearing a box under either arm. One contained Lillian Nordica's jewels, the other her ashes...
...admiring tribute Fannie Hurst has written: "Gangplank for Madam Minister! . . . Diplomacy is as feminine as ships and cats and south wind and lipstick. Diplomacy rises in the female heart and becomes an underground river, running swiftly beneath the surface of the sex. . . . The greatest political diplomats of the world have been . . . Pompadours, De Staels, Helens. . . . The poised, experienced, gorgeously equipped Madam Minister of today is schooled to her finger tips." At her arrival last week, Danish orchestras burst into ''Springtime in Denmark- Lilacs in Bloom," the words by Madam Minister, music by her daughter, "Ruth the Second...
...others climbed up into the official car, to be photographed with Franklin Roosevelt when he emerged on the rear platform to descend by the gangplank. Louis Howe was not in the photographs but he was in the car to ride back to the White House with the President...
...DAMSTERDYK" This telegram, received in a Liverpool shipping office, caused clerks, sailors, housewives and steamship officials to drop their work, swarm over the docks, prepare a rousing welcome for Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. In the midst of a great din the Dutch freighter Damsterdyk tied up. Down the gangplank, blinking behind heavy spectacles, marched Colonel Irving Augustus Isaac Lindberg, High Commissioner of Nicaragua, Collector-General of Customs. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, whose biggest duty is to appease Nicaragua's foreign bondholders. Vastly disgruntled, the crowd drifted away...
...sooner had Stowaway Wainwright been turned over to his grandmother than police caught another boy slipping down the gangplank, found that he was William L. Hires, 16, nephew of Philadelphia's Charles E. Hires Jr. (Hires Root Beer). Stowaway Hires had made the round trip...