Word: guardedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accomplished at Paris. First they drove up to the Department of State in a taxicab, went in to call upon Secretary Stimson. After a long wait their taxi-driver grew impatient, suspected his four fares of stealing away to escape the metre charge, went in and told a guard they were "dead beats." Emerging after two hours, the four Reparation Commissioners crossed the street to the White House to lunch with President Hoover. About the table were gathered officials from the State and Treasury Departments. Questions were asked and answered. The advisability of having a U. S. official join...
Quick to give quip and quiddity is the present Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, William Henry Grenfell, Baron Desborough of Taplow, famed afterdinner speaker, chairman of the Pilgrim Society of Great Britain. Baron Desborough has other distinctions quite as noteworthy. In his time he has stroked a crew across the English Channel, swum twice across the Niagara River, been champion swordsman of the British Army, Mayor of Maidenhead, chairman of the Fresh Water Fish Committee. But it is as chairman of the Pilgrims that he is now best known to the world. As such he publicly dines some...
...Speech. After Lord Desborough's introduction, embroidered with such quips and quiddities as all Yeomen of the guard insist on. Ambassador Dawes stood up, pulled a typed manuscript from his pocket, apologized for reading his speech, but said its importance made reading necessary. The Pilgrims leaned forward on their chairs to catch the sound of his thin, high-pitched staccato voice. The major diplomats at the speakers' table were less excited. Earlier in the day Diplomat Dawes had asked them to read his speech in advance...
Flying with a mechanic and a passenger between Hartford and Willimantic, Conn, last week, Lieutenant Carl Dixon, Connecticut National Guard pilot, discovered a wheel loose and a strut broken on his landing gear. To land meant wreckage. What to do? He climbed to two thousand feet, gave the controls to the mechanic, who knew but little of piloting, broke a hole in the fuselage bottom, crawled through head first. Hanging by his feet he ingeniously used his belt, a piece of rope and a shoelace to lash the broken gear together. The repair sufficed to let him land safely...
...into their speed boat and started across. At the mouth of the River Rouge a Customs boat gave chase. Ten cases were jettisoned without widening the gap between the two boats. The rum-runners beached their craft, took to their heels. Customs Inspector Jonah Cox landed, stood guard over the liquor while his comrade went back to headquarters for assistance. Eugster & friends came back. A fight started. Eugster was shot by Cox, died the next clay. The U. S. quickly exonerated Cox for a killing "in line of duty...