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Married. Edith Antoinette Savoy, daughter of "Eddie" Savoy, to Robert Morgan of Washington. "Eddie," Negro messenger to the office of Sectary of State since 1869, has served under Hamilton Fish, William M. Ewarts, James G. Blaine, F. T. Frelinghuysen, Thomas F. Bayard, John W. Foster, Walter Q. Gresham, Richard Olney, John Sherman, William R. Day, John Hay, Elihu Root, Robert Bacon, Philander C. Knox, William Jennings Bryan, Robert Lansing, Bainbridge Colby, Charles Evans Hughes. In recent years, he has presented passports to all representatives of foreign governments, including Bernstorff and Dumba...
...King Albert of the Belgians visited Rome last year. This was the first visit of any Catholic monarch since 1870, when Pope Pius IX threatened a ban on Catholic monarchs who accepted the hospitality of the House of Savoy, which had usurped his temporal power...
...other climbs steadily to the top. The motive power is a man's love. Both are dancers; the first of the type usually called "nice," whose blood is burned with ragtime rhythms; the second, a cabaret performer. A London flat, a Canadian barroom, a bridal suite at the Savoy, and a music hall dressing room in Paris are the successive backgrounds. Romance is omnipresent...
Earnest followers of American progress in musical comedy recall with poignant regret the death of Bert Savoy (TIME, July 9). Savoy was a female impersonator; the most strident yet one of the funniest of comedians. His phrases included: " You don't know the half of it, dearie," " You must come over," " You should have been with us." Now his partner, Jay Brennan, has taken unto himself a new and similar associate named Rogers. The pair are a success in provincial music halls. Shortly they will be tried in New York...
Thomas Nelson Page was Woodrow Wilson's ambassador to the Court of Savoy. Of Thomas Nelson Page : a Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman by Rosewell Page, Mr. Mencken writes: " Let the Scribners take the gold-mounted custard pie for printing the worst biography every heard...