Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After taking one look at Australia's Stanley Melbourne Bruce virtually all Canadian reporters called him "the handsomest man at the Conference." Said the Ottawa Citizen: "He is tall, fine featured, immaculately groomed; one who must be tempted at times to gaze into the full-sized mirror and encounter the grandiose vision of himself...
...delegates' luggage, Canada's reporters commented that some of it seemed to have been bought for the occasion and that some of the stuff was just wrapped up. They recorded that Premier Bennett had to walk down to the last car of an incoming train to meet Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Baldwin to whom Mr. Bennett said, ''Greetings...
...both oceans and on various liners the delegations held aquatic conferences last week, preserving the tradition of secrecy. First chief delegates to land (at Vancouver with a total of 60 persons, some representing the Fiji Islands) were former Premiers Joseph Gordon Coates of New Zealand and Stanley Melbourne Bruce of Australia. Cocky Australian henchmen embarrassed their rich, cultured, suave Mr. Bruce by crowing, "You can take it this will be a Bruce show...
...Delegations & passengers aboard the Empress of Britain did not panic when a fire broke out while Chief Delegate Stanley Baldwin was appealing for contributions to the Seamen's Orphanage Fund. ''That ends the program," said Mr. Baldwin serenely when the flames leaped, to be quickly quenched by extinguishers...
...Manhattan, one Stanley Podloudy, loiterer, forced Stanley Pietraszkiewitz, janitor, downstairs, tried to shove his head into a stove, broil him. Vexed, Stanley Pietraszkiewitz bit off Stanley Podloudy's left...