Word: oval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...moosehorn liquor set that her estranged husband had given the admiral she got for $30. The four red lacquer tea tables, gift of the Emperor of Japan, went to Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter for $16. Speaker Champ Clark's daughter-in-law got an oval gilt table...
Guest of honor at a dinner preceding the 77th annual Charity Ball for the New York Nursery & Child's Hospital, was white-haired Sara Delano Roosevelt, 78, mother of the President. In the Ritz-Carlton's Oval Room after dinner she listened to an orchestra playing gypsy music, oldtime Viennese waltzes. While younger guests danced in the main ballroom, amused themselves in cafe & casino, Mrs. Roosevelt occupied a box with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, conversed confidentially with her. Late in the evening the traditional grand march formed in the Palm Court. Wearing her favorite color, black, and escorted...
...news in the hope that it may explain why Mary is still potent to make historians and poets weep. She was Queen of Scotland a few days after birth, Queen of France at 18, true Queen of England according to Catholic Europe. She was tall, slim, dark, with an oval, plump-cheeked face like Film Actress Diana Wynyard's. She had beauty, brains, charm that she never turned off. She had little Scots patriotism, no bigotry, a great gift for hatred and revenge, a warm and grateful heart. The Scots, intent on being Protestants, were suspicious of her. England...
...opposition of the hard money men was getting organized. Day after the ceremony in the Oval Room of the White House, the directors of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce solemnly adopted a resolution urging a speedy return to a dollar with a fixed gold content, charging that dollar uncertainty prevented recovery, upset Government credit. The same day the President on his way South (see p. 7) quoted John Stuart Mill's statement: ''History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them...
...converted garage with her grave, acutely class-conscious 16-year-old son Mischa. Together they hurried to the Soviet Commissariat of Communications. Proud as punch. Soviet technicians placed before them a Russian-made telephone, bade them talk by short wave radio to Comrade Litvinoff, seated in the Oval Room of the White House. "Millions of Americans will listen to you on their radio networks!" cried the chief Red technician proudly. "Say whatever you wish...