Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was the line, the widows from Winsor: "Oh, how do you do, Mr. Smythe. Indeed I do remember you!" But it's Smith, Madam; as in Smithsonian, you know. "Smithsonian? Indeed I have seen it. Rare specimens there; yes, yes." And there were the ushers unctuous and important with gardenias. There was the music of an orchestra, and the husky crone of a singer: There was "Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life", there was, "The Lady In Red". There were loud voices, there were louder glances. There were immaculate dress shirts, and there was the Vagabond's. There were laughing...
...Lescaut, parts of Cavalier ia Rusticana, and Leoncavallo's Mattinata. He throws in two more popular pieces Midnight in Paris and I Carry You in My Pocket but soon comes up with Vesti la Giubba, and then rises to E lucevan le stelle in Tosca at the Metropolitan. Madam Ernestine Schumann-Heink inter polates Brahms's Lullaby, and Dancers Maria Gambarelli and Vincente Escudero do their specialties...
...last week Joseph Clark Grew, U. S. Ambassador to Japan, sailed through the Golden Gate into San Francisco Bay. One evening last week Robert Worth Bingham, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, embarked at Southampton, sailed down the Solent. In Copenhagen Madam Minister Ruth Bryan Owen packed her trunks, stowing away precious Eskimo costumes brought as trophies from Greenland. In Budapest, U. S. Minister John Flournoy Montgomery looked at the lush trees of Andrássy Utca, wondered whether their leaves would have turned before he saw them again. In Cairo, U. S. Envoy Bert...
...Franklin Roosevelt had given something more than tacit consent to the retirement of Madam Secretary Perkins to a back seat in labor affairs. While the Labor Bill was in the making Mme Perkins fought to have its execution vested in her department rather than in an independent Labor Board. Congress rebuffed her. The President in signing the act hammered that rebuff home: "It should be clearly understood that [the Labor Board] will not act as mediator or conciliator. . . . The function of mediation remains, under this act, the duty of the Secretary of Labor. ... It is important that the judicial function...
...going to be a coal strike? The President had not heard of it. It had been postponed to July 1 when he had promised to press for passage of the Guffey Coal Bill and he had assumed it would be postponed again. Hastily the President asked McIntyre to get Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins on the telephone. After some difficulty "Mac" located her lunching with Mrs. Roosevelt. Miss Perkins had not known there was to be a coal strike. Besides, she was all involved that day in moving to her new quarters from the late Mary Harriman Rumsey's Georgetown...