Word: inkstands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good luck to you! All the luck in the world!" shouted Franklin Roosevelt as the train pulled out for Quebec. They had all exchanged photographs, and the King gave the President a gold inkstand. To Their Majesties, Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt presented copies of all the books they have written...
...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...
Upon being told by the nearest British civil servant, he exclaimed, "Indeed! Do you actually inform me that that is the inkstand of His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs? I am accustomed to a silver and crystal inkstand. This appears to be of braass and glaass...
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...
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...