Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong language, Senators immediately got the idea that the documents would make racy personal reading, called for them louder than ever. Reports spread that Ambassador Dawes had characterized one British proposal as "damned nonsense," that Secretary of State Stimson had referred to certain U. S. Senators as "pin-heads." Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, a Treaty proponent, insisted, however, that he had read the secret documents and had "had a hard time keeping awake...
...course Mrs. Hughes' work is no pretentious study of English culture. It aims to be only a handy pocket size travel-guide book that attempts to pin between its pages a goodly share of the charm that makes England so dear to those who know it. To carry out her purpose the author gives the reader something of an understanding of the English and things English. In this sense it is, comparatively speaking, as broadening as an actual journey across the Atlantic, and it should be of no slight assistance to those planning such a voyage...
Governor Kohler took the witness stand early in the trial to answer prosecution questions. A white carnation bobbed in his buttonhole. A pearl pin was stuck in his black tie. Grave, composed, good-natured, he defended himself, his family, his company in a manner befitting one in his position. The crowd in the courtroom listened quietly, attentively...
...while the power of the present Imperial house was in abeyance), sailed from Yokohama last week on a globe circling honeymoon. In London H. I. H. will repay the visit to Japan of H. R. H. Prince Henry (TIME, May 13), and in Madrid grave, bespectacled Prince Takamatsu will pin the gorgeous Order of the Chrysanthemum ("Garter of Japan'') on sporting King Alfonso XIII of Spain...
...offices of the Secretary of State, received an autographed photograph from Sir Esme Howard, retired British Ambassador to the U. S., in token of courtesies received. Recently the Japanese naval conference delegation, stopping at Washington en route to London, presented Messenger Savoy with a platinum and diamond stick pin...