Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frenchmen admire the Ambassador's cultivated tastes in wines and foods. They call him "that spectacular American." He is on intimate terms with many a French statesman. He frequently visits Premier Edouard Daladier. He was one of the few foreigners allowed to visit the powerful French Maginot Line. He has made little secret of his French sympathies and it was he who persuaded President Roosevelt to approve of the sale of U.S. warplanes to France last month...
...else," she is gradually unlearning the habit of thinking in Chinese idiom. Her next book (finished in fact before The Patriot) will be a sequel to her weakest novel, This Proud Heart, her first with a U. S. setting. She says she will never again live in China, may visit it when she knows for certain "what shape it will assume...
Egypt last week was busily preparing for the visit next month of the 18-year-old Crown Prince of Iran, Shahpur Mohammed Reza, son of strong-willed Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi, whose marriage to hazel-eyed, black-haired, 17-year-old Princess Fawziya, eldest sister of boy-King Farouk will take place this spring. At last reports the wedding date had not been...
...always houses a staff of seven men. Besides Secretary Strakacz, who plays bridge with him on long jumps, and Piano-tuner Joubert, who carries around an atlas and answers questions about the populations and industries of the towns they visit, the most indispensable member of this staff is his private chef. With romantic Paderewski, food is a romantic passion. He is partial to lamb, chicken and turkey, worships caviar, pheasant and sweet champagne. If he is about to visit a town famous for some particular dish, he always telegraphs ahead to have some of it specially prepared...
Miss Lawrence wants to visit Harvard before she leaves, and the Hasty Pudding Club has invited her to tea, but her time is filled with regular performances of "Susan and God" and rehearsals of a new play, "Skylark," to open March...