Word: madams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maids, butlers: It is incorrect to say: "A lady has just passed out in the green bedroom, Madam." Say simply: "Mrs. Soandso" instead of "Madam...
...Five nights before his 57th birthday, Franklin Roosevelt motored over to Fort Myer, Va. to a gala Army horseshow, proceeds of which (around $3,000) began this year's anti-infantile paralysis collection in his honor. With him he took Mrs. Roosevelt, horse-loving Harry Hopkins, and Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, currently under fire in the House...
Congressional growling at Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins last week culminated in a sharp, open bark. Republican J. Parnell Thomas, of Allendale, N. J. offered a resolution in the House instructing the Judiciary Committee to inquire whether Miss Perkins should be impeached for failure to deport radical Labor Leader Harry Bridges, alleged Communist...
...Retorted Madam Secretary: "It may interest you to know that one of my specialties is relieving tension. ... I hold pretty moderate views on [labor problems] and when I have an opportunity to discuss them I find that I generally allay suspicion and even modify ill-will and dislike...
...maid at Lady Waldegrave's spilled a cup of hot tea on his legs. Swallowing his pain, he quickly picked up the thread of his comments on his hostess' art collection. When a few minutes later she asked how he felt, little Thomas answered: "Thank you, madam, the agony is abated." At eight he wrote his Compendium of Universal History, a record of leading events from creation to the current year (1808). Next followed a long heroic poem, part of which celebrated the career of his father, Zachary, famed abolitionist and founder of the Bible Society (forerunner...