Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...going to get married, that he might be let alone. The newsgatherers were waving slips of paper which read: "Ambassador and Mrs. Morrow announce the engagement of their daughter Anne Spencer to Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh." Well? Col. Lindbergh compressed his lips and only opened them to say: "You know all about it. I have nothing to say. I will confine my remarks to aviation." The next day he flushed in angry silence at public comment and curiosity about his plans. Finally in Miami he said: "I believe the announcement is sufficient acknowledgement of the engagement." But it really...
...word only more must I say. I think we should feel that if we separated without expressing our thanks to Mr. Camerlynck [applause], we should be accounted among the most ungrateful of mankind. Mr. Camerlynck has an absolute genius for the work he has undertaken [applause]. ... I do not know what my French colleagues think when they hear their speeches translated by Mr. Camerlynck into the English tongue. But I know what I always think when I hear my speeches translated into the French tongue, which is that it is a matter of most agreeable surprise to think that...
...celebrated evening when Georges Clémenceau and David Lloyd George are supposed to have gotten Woodrow Wilson convivially stimulated,, but if so the little Fleming never told. When asked in his later years: "Why don't you write your memoirs?" Gustave Henri Camerlynck always laconically replied. "I know too much." He was 60 when Death came...
...said King Christian X of Denmark, "I am too long. I know I am too long...
...Swope, Sir') Swope, who has leaped at a bound from journalism to cigaret indorsing. 'Whenever I am tempted to eat between meals,' his signed statement reads, 'I light up a Lucky.' Little did the American Tobacco Company know that in Mr. Swope's life there is no such time as between meals. Elementary, he doesn't have any meals. The former - and his bellowing of 'Tear up the contract!' therefore now makes us only laugh - Executive Editor of the World, always is five or six hours late for break fast, luncheon...