Word: viscounts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week routine diplomatic procedure to get the best deal Belgium could obtain as quietly as possible climaxed when, a handsome scrap of paper was handed by the German Foreign Minister, portly, grey-mustached Diplomat-of-the-Old-School Baron Constantin von Neurath in Berlin to sleek, smart Belgian Ambassador Viscount Jacques Davignon...
...March 1918. A refugee train was on its way from Petrograd to Harbin carrying a polyglot group of diplomatic officials, business men and bankers. On board were the staff of the American embassy in Russia, headed by First Secretary Bailey; the staff of the Japanese embassy, headed by Viscount Uchida; the staff of the Chinese and Brazilian ministries; and the Crown Prince of Turkestan. American civilians included part of the staffs of the Petrograd and Moscow branches of the National City Bank of New York (including myself) ; YMCA and YWCA workers; trade representatives; and George Sokolsky, editor [at .that time...
...grey-spired Christiansborg palace, home of the Danish Parliament, a dumpy old lady last week rapped a distinguished gathering to order. Before her sat 203 representatives from 21 nations, including France's bouncing Edouard Herriot, Czechoslovakia's venerable Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, England's Leaguophile Viscount Cecil of Chelwood. The meeting was boycotted by totalitarian Russia, Germany and Italy, but when the old lady, peering sharply from behind high baskets of pink and red roses, began to speak, it was in full-throated Italian. At 67, Dottoressa Maria Montessori had called together a ten-day international Congress...
...Hollywood, Viscount Konoye's discussions with studio officials will concern modifications of Madame Butterfly (which Paramount made twice before, most lately in 1932 with Sylvia Sydney and no music) to make it more complimentary to Japan, better propaganda for the kind of occidentalization in which the Konoyes specialize. In the Konoye Butterfly, Pinkerton is a U. S. musician instead of a Navy lieutenant. After he reluctantly deserts Cho Cho San, she decides to be a singer, goes to the U. S. for her grand debut. Instead of a tragedy, the Konoye Butterfly, which the Viscount hopes to have photographed...
...sells him to a cotton manufacturer. Enroute to North England in the company of workhouse children, he falls in love with a slum girl, is involved in a murder and sentenced to be hanged. The good uncle who saves him is an old lover of his dead mother. Viscount Setoun, who sends him to school, gives him an Austrian estate. Christopher's fairy godmother teams up with the Viscount. When an aggressive American schoolgirl tries to seduce Christopher, they send him to Germany...