Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expression of an opinion by Mr. Shaw you merely make yourselves and your publication ridiculous and affect him no more than a cur in the gutter snapping at a passing mastiff. I have long since ceased to buy your so-called "magazine," but from the copies I see now and then in libraries and elsewhere I gather that a cheaply-sensational attitude is its present pose. I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant...
...third famed official yacht is the Apo, assigned to the Governor-General of the Philippines. She, too, was without an official user last week, owing to the departure of Statesman Stimson for the U.S. (see col. 2). As the Amelia she was built in Scotland for King Carlos of Portugal when his son Manuel was a dashingly amorous prince. Many were the joyrides aboard her for the late, luscious actress Gaby Deslys (real name : Madeline Caire, 1884-1920). Manuel first espied Gaby in a disrobing act in a London music hall. Her baby-blue eyes went straight to his heart...
After 40 hours, Mr. Coolidge left his hotel suite, descended to the station. Walking on the platform to his noon train, he confided: "Well ... I just came down ... to see a few publishers and a few friends. I have been trying to get back to private life and you fellows [newsgatherers] will have to help...
About Statesman Stimson pressed newsgatherers. Said he with startling informal ity: "I absolutely refuse to shoot off my mouth about my new job until I see my new chief." But he was by no means silent, for he had plenty to say about the Philippines. The proposition to impose duties upon sugar and other products from the Islands to the U. S. vexed him greatly...
Under the head of "problems" President Hoover had a neat stack of subjects awaiting the consideration of Statesman Stimson. Among them were: 1) Diplomatic appointments; 2) Policies on Mexico, China, Russia, disarmament, prohibition (the I'm Alone [see p. 12] etc.); 3) A new Governor-General of the Philippines...