Word: madams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...63rd Charter Day. Before Robert Gordon Sproul became president, the University of California never had a Charter Day speaker more liberal than Nicholas Murray Butler or David Starr Jordan. Walter Lippmann two years ago was a starter. But Pundit Lippmann had no such enemies on the West Coast as "Madam Queen" has among the San Francisco businessmen. Because she declined to use her department to weed out and deport alleged Reds, many a San Franciscan still believes that the Secretary of Labor was somehow morally responsible for last year's General Strike...
This book by Madam Minister is about the nearest most readers will ever get to Greenland, for the island is closed to tourists and traders. Traveler Owen set out from Copenhagen on her voyage feeling adventurous but game. The little 1,400-ton ship she went on had only one bathroom, but her cabin was filled with flowers. At her first sight of Greenland's icy mountains Mrs. Owen found herself "struggling with the impulse toward tears." Looking hard at the icebergs gave her strength to face things: "I know I shall fear neither death nor living so much...
...issue with your generalities regarding New York divorces, e. g., "there are always pajamas" and "the woman is always blonde" and "New York wives shrink from the hoary tale." I am a practicing attorney in the city of New York and my experience includes several divorces, but never has Madam X of the story been a blonde, never has she worn pajamas, never has a wife shrunk from the hoary tale...
...biggest, almost 100 Corgis were benched. Two of the three Corgis shown in Manhattan last week were brought from England by Mrs. Lewis Roesler of Great Barrington, Mass. Because one of her specimens had frost-bitten ears, he got third prize, while Mrs. Roesler's Little Madam got first prize Of the six dogs which were judged best of their respective groups, by far the most famed was Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen. White as a snowdrift, except for his black nose and black eyes, Nunsoe Due de la Terrace of Blakeen is the fabulous French poodle...
...chosen for their interest in Greenland, dined on Eskimo food to the music of Eskimo accordions, reclined on Eskimo brixes, called each other by Eskimo names. Chief guest, addressed as Ipatuklivak (Mightily- Bearded-God), was Greenland's most jealous Danish protector, strapping, bushy Premier Thorvald Stauning. After dinner Madam Minister Owen, called Inunguak (Dear-Little-Woman), played records which she made in Greenland last summer...