Word: lindsays
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lady Lindsay has dealt as coldly and impersonally with Washington reporters as she would with the Embassy ice man.-Washington Dispatch to the New York Post...
Next morning more than 50 male and female reporters trooped into the austere British Embassy, so many that the Rt. Hon. Sir Ronald Lindsay had to meet them in the spacious entrance hall. Standing on the staircase obviously frightened, His Excellency was made no more comfortable by the activities of extremely irreverent photographers...
...will be served under smaller marquees. The hard drink bar will be around a corner, out of sight. Guests must remain until Their Majesties withdraw. Then "the garden gates will be opened and the guests will leave," unhandshaken (because of their number) by moose-tall Sir Ronald & Lady Lindsay, whose last official performance in Washington this will...
...Lady Lindsay and her social secretary, Irene Boyle, had previously snooted Washington newshens and refused reasonable requests for information on such occasions as the visit of Anthony Eden. Even visiting British sobsisters who were received by Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House found Lady Lindsay too busy to receive them at the British Embassy. Last week frosty-haired Lady Lindsay prepared the press for the goodwill visit of the King and Queen by commenting on the bad manners of the U. S. press as she told them how Americans would have to behave. The newshens answered her back, unimpressed...
Soon the U. S. State Department topped Lady Lindsay by issuing further instructions to U. S. citizens who might meet the King & Queen...