Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale's needs and possibilities which will be immensely valuable to the man who is to shape her policies in the years to come. It has given him close contact with the faculty and the corporation. And from this position he has been able to get a first-hand understanding of Yale, which must always be a part of her President's equipment...
...slight correction. It is true he did arrive ahead of schedule, and some of the committee who were to meet him came after he did, but we knew him at once. However, while we were talking with him, a Salvation Army lass came up with a ticket in her hand and wanted some information about trains. Although we joked about it, we all were impressed by his courteous and kindly treatment of the lady. How different some of the travelers, that stop off from Hollywood and New York, would have treated a similar incident...
...lady presented to the King curtsies. A gentleman presented to the King bows. Neither a lady nor a gentleman seizes the King's hand to shake it. Last week the greatest Court sensation since Soviet Foreign Minister Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was impudent about King Edward VIII* was created by Adolf Hitler's personal and official envoy to the Court of St. James, Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador...
...time, again advanced and saluted a third time, as though trying by repeated example to get George VI to give the Nazi salute or at least some kind of salute in return. His Majesty remained unruffled, returned each von Ribbentrop salute with a formal British bow, and permitted his hand to be gripped and shaken when the German finished up by wanting to do that. By this time every member of the diplomatic corps was watching, fascinated, and agreement was general that "the King, while shaking hands with von Ribbentrop, smiled, although somewhat uneasily...
...England's greatest lawyer, Sir John recalled how the insanity of King George III prevented that unfortunate monarch from assenting to the Regency Act made necessary by his madness. The present Regency Bill, proposed by King George VI in "a message signed by His Majesty's own hand," should obviate Regency Act difficulties for all time, according to Sir John Simon, and overwhelmingly the House was with...