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Word: invitee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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On January 4, 1932 out of the gloomy General Grant rococo of the State Department emerged the figure of an intense, chivalrous man, Colonel Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State. He descended the long flight of steps, stalked across the street, entered the White House offices where he was closeted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNITED STATES: How to be Neutral | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

His prayer over, Mr. Eddy walked out. Senator Harry W. Bolens, 75, who is famed for taking catnaps at his desk, rose like a pillar of fire, asked if Mr. Eddy were a "Christian gentleman," said: "I hope we never invite him to come again into the company of decent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wrath in Madison | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

In Hollywood's Clover Club one night last week cafe society saw the nearest thing yet to a man biting a dog. Pretender Extraordinary Mike Romanoff, of Vilna, Russia, and/or Hillsboro, Ill., after some 20 years on cafe society's cuff, threw a party. The formal invitation, engraved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buffet Supper | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Slickest bullying trick of Nazi spider-fly diplomacy is to invite victims to Berlin, turn their heads with official flattery, parades and feasts, then scare them out of their wits with a stunning display of German military might given, of course, in their honor.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Spider and Fly | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

There is no obligation on the King or Queen to take any journalists on their laps or invite them to pull up chairs and shoot olive pits with them."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Royal Press | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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