Word: often
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diplomacy-as so many diplomats so often assert-is a profession. Last week, like a clan of impeccable Harley Street physicians shuddering over the success of some popular "bone setter," the established diplomatic practitioners of London winced anew at Charles Gates Dawes. Publicly, with hearty fist-bangs upon a London banquet table, the U. S. Ambassador had just rasped and barked...
Albertine has blue, almond-shaped eyes and her black hair ripples. Jealous of her girl friends, unable to do without her in her absence yet often feeling bored in her presence, the "I" of the story takes Albertine to live with him in his house. There he discovers that "love ... is what we feel for a person whose actions seem rather to arouse our jealousy." If Albertine arouses her "darling Marcel's" jealousy, it is through small fault of her own, for she most industriously lies to the exhaustive questionnaire he conducts whenever she comes home of an evening...
Divorced. Edith Mason, 36, Chicago Civic Opera soprano; from Giorgio Polacco, 54, conductor of the company; in Chicago. Singer Mason charged cruelty, declared Director Polacco had often said, "Wives and cattle should be of one's own country...
...relaxation he travels-anywhere and everywhere. He enjoys and has often played jazz. Boston prophets foresee his elevation to a regular conductorship. He planned the Esplanade Concerts for two years, typing innumerable letters, making endless calls. Now that the concerts are a reality, he finds himself-dark, stocky, energetic-something of a public idol. Boston ladies applaud himself as well as his music. When the wind blows across the Charles they draw each other's attention to "Arthur's" locks, gaily ruffled by the breeze...
...Baring Bros.). Both Mr. and Mrs. Bates were natives of Massachusetts. He gave great gifts toward the founding of Boston Public Library. Their London years were cheered by opulence, popularity. But Poet Payne, who also spent most of his life away from his native U. S., was a homeless, often unhappy, expatriate, visited by the nostalgia which led him to write his famed song. When he met Mrs. Bates she asked him to inscribe the words in her autograph book. He did so, composed the two special stanzas, concluded: "I have added a few words more, addressed to you .... What...