Word: junketers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jean Patou, Paris couturier, sailing home after a U. S. junket, told reporters that he had been kicked in the shin by a Manhattan debutante while dancing. Said he: "I would laugh at the cheek-against-cheek, the eyes-half-closed and the lower-part-of-the-body-trailing manner of dancing if it were not for its alarming public danger. The girl who kicked me - she retained a comic expression of rapture. The effect, I would say, was at least bad on the eyes." Of other U. S. mores said he: "Those blood-red fingernails are awful. Blood...
Meanwhile political Washington was acutely conscious of every move made by Citizen Coolidge in California. Speculation continued as to the significance, if any, of this Coolidge junket. President Hoover's White House secretariat, more alarmed about it than anyone else, expressed secret misgivings lest it might portend presidential developments...
Decision by Mr. Ford to give Irish prosperity this potent boost was taken on the famed junket to England (TIME, April 23, 1928), during which King George and Queen Mary put etiquette in their royal pockets and went to the house of Viscountess Astor, where they were in effect presented to Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford. Long, informal and marked by cordiality on both sides was the ensuing chat between the King of Men and the Monarch of Motors, a chat which may just possibly have been momentous and lucky for Ireland...
Frank Brett Noyes, president of the Associated Press, publisher of the Washington Star, on a Mediterranean junket with his wife, was entertained as guest of honor at the Barcelona exposition by Baron de Viver, the city's Mayor...