Word: munch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long table, Britain's Anthony Eden at the other. Their lunch eon guests were the delegates of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands. Early last week this group of neutrals had gone to the dingy Hotel Richemond and into the bedroom of rawboned, learned Dr. Peter Munch, Foreign Minister of Denmark. To them Dr. Munch pointed out that the Sanctions question and the Rhineland occupation had a definite lesson. It was time for the small neutrals to stop being the witless tools of France and Britain. An agreement was promptly reached. At Monday's luncheon they...
With the authority of the recently formed Neutral Bloc behind them, Spain's Salvador de Madariaga and Denmark's Munch moved that the Ethiopian question be kept on the League's agenda, the Council voted unanimously to postpone further discussion until an extraordinary session of the League, called for June 15. Next day, Benito Mussolini stiffened further. Declining to participate in any discussions, even among the Locarno signatories, until the League should acknowledge the Ethiopian issue closed, he abruptly ordered the entire Italian delegation back to Rome...
...elected to lean. Subsequently, the President's husky envoy to the Irish Free State collapsed and died, while Ambassador Bingham has bloomed until his health now permits him to be often at his Embassy desk, with a secretary now & then invited to continue to work with him while they munch lunch. Last week there was definitely sunshine in the U. S. Embassy and it burgeoned with what London called "Georgia Peaches...
...Sylva, Leslie Adams, Robert Halliday, Alexander Gray. The "Muny" way is to have local choristers and dancers who work very hard for very little and get their pictures in the papers. For "Muny" opera some 1,700 seats are free to first-comers who arrive hours before curtain time, munch their suppers while they wait. In the $2 seats early-dining socialites sit comfortably on cushions hawked at every entrance. But informality prevails at Forest Park performances. The popcorn sale is heavy. Soft-drink men stalk the aisles. St. Louis expects much this year of Producer Laurence Schwab. Boston-born...
Many another Councilman spoke, Britain's judicial Sir John Simon, France's forthright peasant-tongued Pierre Laval, Spain's verbose and lyric Salvador de Madariaga, but they all added up to the same verdict. Even rawboned Danish Foreign Minister Dr. Peter Munch had no good to say of his country's huge Nazi neighbor. He merely said that he knew everyone would understand why Denmark "could not'' (i. e. dared not) vote against Germany and must abstain...