Word: soda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty taste in whiskey and a deft hand at intrigue, which won him his Whitehall nickname of "Machiavelli-and-soda." Sir Robert's usual professional touch was evident last week when Sir Eric Phipps, British Ambassador to Germany, discovered that his wife must pass a little time in England for her health, and so invited her sister Lady Vansittart to Berlin to be his Embassy hostess during the Olympic Games. With the innocence of a fox in lamb's clothing, Sir Robert then simply went along with his charmingly social wife to Berlin "for entirely personal reasons...
...more vigor than the tailor's dummy some Europeans uncharitably consider him to be.* The rearming of Helgoland he glossed over as German "peccadillo," adding: "Individual matters of this kind, though they cannot be passed unobserved, should not be raised at the moment"-i. e., not until "Machiavelli-&-soda" has seen what he can do in Berlin...
...girl stranded in London, buys a newspaper to read on the boat to France, the headline says: AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE ASSASSINATED AT SARAJEVO. The purpose of the picture, up to this point unrevealed, thereafter becomes clear. Other stories have shown some of the individual happenings which overtook individual farmers, bellringers, soda-jerkers, et al. at the outbreak of War. Suzy sets out to include in one picture all happenings which overtook all chorus girls stranded in all countries in all wars. Over a period of one and a half hours, it seems to succeed...
Ontario's Minister of Public Welfare David A. Croll, one of the Dionne Quintuplets' three official guardians, announced that their father, Oliva Dionne, had asked the Provincial Government for permission to open a hot dog & soda water booth opposite his daughters' nursery in Callander, Ont. (TIME, July 20 et ante). Said Minister Croll: "He is going to operate a stand and we are going to see to it that he has the necessary electric energy for refrigeration...
...Royalist Jones's revenge was exceedingly short. Day after the Supreme Court decision a Federal grand jury in Manhattan started to hear a special Department of Justice agent present straight mail-fraud charges against the onetime Kansas soda-jerker. Last week J. Edward Jones was indicted on 15 counts, not for violation of the Securities Act but for using the mails to sell $800,000 worth of oil royalty certificates with false promises and fraudulent pretenses...