Word: london
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More than a thousand ladies were presented to Their Majesties in Buckingham Palace, last week, at the first two Courts of the present London season. The 22 U. S. citizenesses who curtsied low before the King-Emperor, rose, glided two steps to the right, and curtsied to the Queen-Empress were...
Finally there were presented from the diplomatic circle: Mrs. John R. Thomas Jr., wife of the Military Attache at London; Mrs. John C. MacArthur, wife of the Assistant Military Attache; Mrs. Hugh Dewitt Butler, wife of the Assistant Commercial Attache; Mrs. Wainwright Abbott, wife of the Second Secretary of the American Legation at Dublin; and Miss Maude Hunnewell of Boston, fiancee of Counselor Ray Atherton of the U. S. Embassy at London...
Meanwhile Right Honorable Members learned from London news organs that Signor Mussolini had just informed Mr. Kellogg that "The Royal Government of Italy . . . offers very willingly . . . cordial collaboration toward reaching an agreement...
Last week fellow members of London's aristocratic Carlton Club condoled with Sir William, 64, because he had dislocated a shoulder. Soon, however, many a gouty peer grew mirthful at Sir William's very clubbable account of his dislocation. Said he: "I was undressing slowly, the other night, and reading P. G. Wodehouse's humorous story, Jeeves Carries On. I was so absorbed that I did not look to see what I was doing and consequently did not realize that I was putting both feet into one pajama leg. A moment later I stood up, overbalanced, fell...
...Author. France, patron of the arts, frequently offers her young authors the travel and leisure of the diplomatic service (Paul Claudel, Jean Giraudoux). Author Morand has been attached to the embassies of London, Rome, Madrid, and finally Bangkok. To and from this last post he traveled by way of America, Japan, India, collecting data for his latest book. Born in Russia, of French parents (1888), he was educated at Oxford, studied law and political science in Paris, is a prolific writer, notably of post-War character sketches. Sleek of face and hair, he looks still younger than...