Word: guests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anxious to put their distinguished guest at ease, the newsvendors invited to sit beside him jovial Viscount Lee of Fareham, who is just now ferreting into corruption at Scotland Yard as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Police Powers and Procedure. The prominence of the chairman's police activities probably disarmed any suspicion on Ambassador Houghton's part that Viscount Lee, who used to be First Lord of the Admiralty, would try to draw him out on the delicate subject of Anglo-U. S. naval rivalry. Lord Lee did just that. Worse, he raised a preliminary laugh...
...Comrade President and warm his stomach with scalding tea from the never-out presidential samovar. Each peasant knows that he may address the President of Russia familiarly as "Tovaristch" and that the kindly, bearded face of Kalinin will wrinkle in a warm, genuine smile when he greets the humble guest "Tovaristch" in return. No wonder the Son-of-Ivan has been steadily reelected President* since 1919. No wonder his heart was sore, last week, when Dictator Joseph Stalin proposed in Isvestia to deal at "Rich Peasants" a ruthless "destructive blow...
...World's Fair, she was hostess to the Infanta Eulalie of Spain; Duke and Duchess d'Aragona, descendants of Columbus; Princess Schahovska, Prince Cernoski, and Prince Isenberg of Russia. Mrs. Palmer summoned, too, Prince Henry of Prussia. Prince Henry was disdainful. "Is royalty to be guest of an innkeeper's wife?" Royalty was. Prince Henry came...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, contributory star in the Coolidge foreign policy, arrived by plane in Mexico City to be house guest of U. S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, brightest star in the Coolidge foreign policy. In the Morrow home is a talented daughter, Anne, 22. Mexico City newspapers, putting two and two together, made one. They carried stories saying that Anne Morrow and Col. Lindbergh would soon be married in Mexico City. The stories were denied and cabled throughout...
Observers recalled that in Paris, London and Berlin King Amanullah purchased lavishly on his Royal credit and then sent the bills to the Governments whose guest he was. Since Afghanistan is a land of promising markets for European goods, the bills were paid...