Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, however, an hour came when the spotlight unavoidably played on him. He marched in to see Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita and delivered to Japan in the name of the U. S. a vigorous diplomatic kick in the pants. The booting took the form of a long, strong reply to Japan's "unresponsive" answer last November to Secretary Hull's protest against Japan's slamming the open door in China to U. S. trade. Its chief points...
Jack Garner was reported perfectly willing to see Harry Hopkins confirmed, but determined to see WPA's next appropriations chopped far down in the interest of economy, and to see Relief removed from politics. In this determination he was joined by Senators Byrnes and Adams, in charge of Relief appropriation bills, and by Representative Woodrum of Virginia, chairman of the House subcommittee on Relief...
Meanwhile in the Pacific, regarded for several years as the most vulnerable sea front of the U. S., four of the Navy's 15 battleships, two of its 31 cruisers, will stay for overhaul and to see that Japan does not forget its manners. The standing force of submarines, destroyers and planes in the Pacific Islands will also remain undisturbed...
Little different from conventional debuts whose object is to introduce young girls to polite society and eventually to the career of marriage was the debut held last week at the White House (see above). But very different in principle from such debuts are other debuts-a handful of which now take place every year-which provide a glittering preview of young women who are launching on a career somewhat like that of a cinema star, the career of Glamor Girl. Outstanding debut of last week in Manhattan was a party that had all the earmarks of a champagne christening...
...partner, and those dancing around the edge of the ballroom which is the shop-window of the stag line, so they chatted and smiled vivaciously at the surplus males. Yes, the American deb is obviously out to please, unlike the English deb. . . . Precisely the same plump little figures you see in Mayfair, their hair is neither as well cared for nor as well dressed, their complexions are often poor and their clothes also are dowdy by comparison...