Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weddings were practically unheard of. Besides, it was common knowledge, until at least 1920, that Benito and Rachele had never bothered to go through a marriage ceremony. A romantic story has it that Edda's trips to London, made in the late 1920s ostensibly for pleasure, were to see her real mother, who, it is said, died of tuberculosis about 1930. With this story is linked the conclusion that Edda's tendency toward weak lungs, which have not appeared in the Mussolini boys, was inherited from her mother...
...week's end Prince Paul did something more to his liking when he entrained for London to be the guest at Buckingham Palace of King George and Queen Elizabeth. The Prince and his wife, Princess Olga, insisted their visit was a private affair to see the Duke & Duchess of Kent before their departure in November for Australia, where the Duke will assume his duties of Governor General. Princess Marina, the Duchess, is Princess Olga's sister...
Advertising ethics, on which most big broadcasters and FCC already see eye to eye, N. A. B. attended to by formally expressing radio's informal Index expurga-torius on such subjects as hard liquor, "products claiming to cure," deceptive claims, overlong or otherwise objectionable commercials...
...Roosevelt's activities, 2) other correspondents and their newspaper friends. Members of the first group drifted toward the front of the room, as usual, and as usual the United Press's tremendous Fred Storm lowered himself into his special chair so that those in the rear could see past him. Franklin Roosevelt gripped a long cigaret holder in his jaw, as he almost always does...
...same time that twinkle-eyed Mr. Woodin left, Señor Oscar Benjamin Cintas, a director of the company and head of its Latin American subsidiaries, also went to the capital to take an official job: Cuban Ambassador to the U. S. Sometimes Charlie Hardy went down to see his friend Oscar and enjoyed the excellent Bacardi cocktails at the Cuban Embassy. After almost a year in Washington Oscar gave up his embassy and returned to the Latin American companies...