Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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German Ambassador Herr Doktor Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron, scholar student directing a heavy intellect upon the intricacies of musty international politics. A tall, spare man, stiff and unbending in manner, he could see no sense in reducing the rights of a diplomat...
Mexican Ambassador Seņor Don Manuel C. Tellez, a young up-from-the-ranks diplomat famed for his sharp humor. A short man with glistening black hair and classic Spanish features, he is the discreetly jovial host at many a lavish entertainment at the Mexican Embassy...
Five days after Bachelor Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 27, married Spinster Anne Spencer Morrow, 21, a 38-ft. Elco cruiser chugged alongside a small dock in New Harbor, Block Island (R. I). A tall young man, tastefully disguised in smoked glasses and a cap, standing alone at the wheel, shouted for aid in bringing his boat alongside. Capt. Louis Rounds, relaxing nearby, gave him a hand. The tastefully disguised young man was the Honeymooning Hero. His bride hid in the cabin below. Capt. Rounds told the story two days later and newsgatherers sped east...
Into the White House one day last week walked Chairman Dr. Hubert Work of the Republican National Committee for a three-hour conference with President Hoover. When he came out, he joked with newsgatherers about a man who had been "hired and fired in ten minutes." A mystified Press soon learned that Dr. Work had resigned his high political post...
...informed by his friends that if he did make the voyage I would have to be most careful of him, and I was. I had to go to his doctor and get permission to take the Archbishop away for the cruise. The doctor said he was a sick man, but he let me have him, and when the head of the Episcopal Church in England returned I think that he looked better for the sea voyage...