Word: punctuality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...base of the 300-ft. white granite Campanile. Well in time for the 10 o'clock procession, Herbert Hoover, who had driven up alone from Palo Alto, arrived with his gown over his arm. To friends he confided: "I hate academic gowns." At 10 o'clock punctual officials glanced nervously at their watches, glanced again & again before Secretary Perkins, who had overslept at the President's House, hurried belatedly upon the scene...
Five minutes later, punctual little King Victor Emmanuel arrived, in the full dress uniform of an Italian General. The instructions to the Deputies had been: "The entrance of the King into the Chamber will be the signal for an enthusiastic outburst of applause." It was. The King marched up and sat down on the throne which had been specially built so that his short legs could reach the floor. Flanking the throne were eight gilded chairs and in each chair a Prince of the blood...
...Then, still so early that socialite Romans had not yet tasted their breakfasts, the Papal motorcade whizzed back toward Vatican City. CRASH!-an Italian army plane came down out of control and cracked up in the Castel Gandolfo road, just after His Holiness had passed. By 10:15 a.m. punctual Pope Pius XI was back at his duties in the sweltering Vatican...
...revolution Socialist Norman Thomas had in mind last week when he addressed a convention of the Intercollegiate Student Council of the League for Industrial Democracy at Manhattan's Barnard College. When young representatives of 30 Eastern colleges were 20 minutes late arriving to hear him, he, always punctual, upbraided them thus: "I'm terribly fed up with the romanticism of your generation. You give advice on every subject, including how not to conduct a revolution, but you never get around to a meeting on time...
Pomp & Circumstance. Punctual Mr. Baldwin was the first delegate to arrive at Canada's handsome, Gothic House of Commons for the opening of the Conference. He took the seat occupied at Parliamentary sessions by the Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Liberal Ex-Premier, Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition in Canada and advocate of a policy of close rapprochement with the U. S., from which Conservative Premier Richard Bedford Bennett has suavely but firmly receded...