Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good diplomat must always be diplomatic. Recently Rt. Hon. Sir Esme William Howard, Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George, Privy Councillor Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Ambassador to the U. S. from the Court of St. James's, proved himself a good diplomat when one James T. Carter, Lynchburg (Va.) lumberman, wrote him a letter demanding that Sir Esme "join hands with the U. S." by relinquishing the privilege of diplomatic liquor importations. The British Ambassador replied (via his private secretary) that he would willingly do so, provided...
...Victorian age," said he, "will sooner or later come to be appreciated once more as a great and spacious time when men still had leisure and it was not necessary to specialize...
...Freeland is owned by Walter J. Salmon, the realtor who built Manhattan's Salmon Tower. The Salmon silks are salmon pink. As winner of the Preakness, Mr. Salmon was presented by Gov. Ritchie with the bulky Woodlawn Vase won last year by Harry Payne Whitney's Victorian. Horseman Salmon touched the cup but did not take it away. It is customary to leave it at Pimlico. Mr. Salmon also received $53>325> which he pocketed...
...long-legged, weaving rhythms of Gertrude Lawrence (Treasure Girl). He is far less successful in his one attempt to imitate a man, to catch the elusive implications of silent Harpo Marx (Animal Crackers). There are also two female mimics: Dorothy Sands and Paula Trueman. The latter sings a Mid-Victorian love lyric while stripping herself of illusion's oldtime harness−bustle, gussets, padded bosom. Congratulations pokes a rather feeble finger at country politics. Morgan Wallace (the name of both playwright and hero) is a stock company entrepreneur and leading man who, broke, is persuaded by a smalltown boss...
...there was but one thing for him to do. Rising late in the evening, he began by rebuking the Conservatives for insinuating that should the Labor party be returned to power they would not preserve "England's word as good as her bond!" Sir Austen Chamberlain (with a Victorian shudder): "That is the only inference that can be drawn from Snowden's words." Mr. MacDonald: "A totally false inference! I have always declared that the American debt settlement was bad; but inside this House and out of it I have said that so far as we are concerned...