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...savored, treasured. Thirty years hence volumes of memoirs will be adorned with versions of what "Tony" said last week if he proves to be a great British Foreign Secretary. What did Lord Curzon say on the like occasion? Foreign Office legend has it that he stared at the inkstand on the Foreign Secretary's desk through his monocle and exclaimed, "What, may I ask, is that remarkable object...
Among the belongings of the League of Nations is a great inkstand of ivory and gold. The well is an imperial crown, supported by two antelope horns which statesmen have likened to the horns of a Dilemma. It was a present from His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie. Power...
Elaborately wrought, encrusted with 17th Century Portuguese ornamentation, it bears proudly the arms of the ten-year-old Portuguese Republic. Weight : 6 Ib. Mate rial: silver plate. Nature: inkstand...
Lisbon papers rumored last week that what had roused President Carmona (himself addicted to fountain pens) to have the inkstand made was the wedding of Princess Marie Jose of Belgium (TIME, Jan. 13). Finding it necessary to order a candelabra for H. R. H., he went the whole hog, ordered the Peace Palace's inkstand too, plus a tray for it to stand on, plus two goose quill pens...
Into the East Room of the White House was wheeled a plain oak table. Potted palms were set in place. Lawrence Richey, Hoover secretary, bustled in, put a blotter and inkstand on the table, masked some talkie microphones behind piled volumes of The Historians History of the World. President Hoover, followed by Vice President Curtis. Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Adams, Senators Watson. Reed, Borah, Robinson, Swanson, marched in, sat down, signed the London Naval Treaty...