Word: oval
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon Mrs. Coolidge received Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the House, and her step-mother in the oval room on the second floor of the White House. After a half hour's chat, Mrs. Longworth's step-mother was shown over the building, and shook hands with several of the older employes. It was the first time that Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. had been in the White House since she left it one March morning...
Quietly through his pince-nez Mr. Rosenwald looked at his associates. They saw a gentle, dignified man, oval of face, high of brow, thoughtful of eye, pleasant of lips-lips which by a phrase had often given millions in thoughtful charity. They were to hear those lips make as fair a proposition as ever was laid before business...
...evening last week a thickset, oval-faced Chinaman with eyes like pinpoints of black steel, strode up and down the station platform at Langfang. The twilight gathered about him. Awed travelers whispered that he was "Little Hsu," the son of "Old Hsu," who was President of China from 1918 to 1922, and that he was the most trusted friend of the present "Chief Executive of China," Tuan...
Proclaiming a royal birth and a royal death, the Gazette likewise trumpeted the Siamese equivalent for "Long Live The King!" Oval faced, almond eyed, inscrutable, Prince Pracha Tipok, ascended the throne of his unfortunate brother with the thankful gravity of one whose star, long dimmed, at length shines brightly. His Queen, by nature plump and radiant as a full-waxed moon, assumed likewise a fitting decorum. Both joined in extending what comfort they might to handsome Chao Chom Suvadena, Queen for a few anguished weeks, "demoted" by death...
...negotiate the peace treaty which followed the Italo-Turkish War in Tripoli (1911-12). And since then his success as Governor of Tripoli, and later as Finance Minister, has endeared him greatly to the House of Savoy and set him high in Fascist councils. Such was the suave oval-faced Italian, with level brows and a scrubby Van Dyck beard, who set sail with his Countess to talk of Italian debts upon an Italian-discovered continent...