Word: simon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fathers and a godfather were concerned. Thereby hung a tale, unrevealed until last week, of how a handsome apology enabled great concord to grow out of the furious spat in Geneva last May between glacial, correct British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and humorous, mercurial French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Knowing nothing of Sir John's deep sorrow at his childless second marriage,* M. Barthou lapsed accidentally into offering a deadly insult to Sir John. The issue was a plan not devised by the Briton but to which he had given approval. "It seems, Sir John," flashed M. Barthou, "that...
...this Sir John Simon flushed beet-red, his secretary paled amid French amazement. This climaxed the public spat over Sir John's proposal to grant a measure of rearmament to Germany which M. Barthou bluntly rejected (TIME, June 11). To all appearances they parted bitter enemies, but just before Sir John left Geneva, M. Barthou, having discovered the nature of his blunder, called to make a handsome apology which Sir John handsomely accepted...
...have been proceeding between Paris, London and Moscow. The fathers of the new scheme to keep Europe's peace are M. Barthou and Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, but they need a potent godfather to urge their plans upon Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Last week Sir John Simon assumed this role with Augustan magnanimity...
Publisher Richard Simon: Drag is a wonderful thing - make use of it. ... The publishing business is hard. In the last ten years I have received applications personally from at least 5,000 young men, and I haven't given a job to one of them...
Wheeonk, blared the bugle of Dr. Walter Baker. The band struck up the "Sidewalks of New York." Cornell-Rockefeller Hospitals' entry, Bronx Cheer (by Simple Simon, out of the East River), was coming into the ring. The white-trousered, white-skirted crowd pressed closer, gabbled excitedly. Was it true that the Accident Ward had given the Obstetrical Clinic's Lucky Miss (by Chance, out of Wedlock) a shot of morphine? The band struck up "La Marseillaise." Pourquoi Pas, entered by a young French nurse, was coming in. Over by the administration building two doctor-bookies gathered...