Word: washingtonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thus Washingtonians, last week, were completely at a loss for an explanation which would reconcile the Post's discourtesy to the Prince, and Publisher McLean's denial of connection therewith. Many a Washingtonian did indeed continue to believe that Prince and Publisher had had a tiff, and that the tiff had been preceded by meat and drink, and that it had resulted in Prince and Publisher each feeling insulted by the other...
...Miss Setsu Matsudaira was a pupil at the Friends (Quaker) School in Washington, D. C.. where her father was until recently Japanese Ambassador. Last week she stood in a smart Paris frock at the right hand of the Son of Heaven, and made gracious small talk in soft, Washingtonian English with the British Prince...
...North America. Generally speaking Brazilians are proud and pleased that their Constitution, "States Rights," Congress, Cabinet, Vice-Presidency, and Presidency are all cut and fitted to the mode of Washington. Only such trifling differences exist as that each Brazilian state is represented by three Senators instead of the Washingtonian two. All too few North American school children have been taught the historic words wherewith Brazil followed the U.S. into war with Germany. Cried President Wenceslao Braz to the Brazilian Congress: "With our elder brother the United States at war, it is impossible for Brazil to remain neutral...
...President came the strange dilemma of William Adkins, 80-year-old Washingtonian with two sons. The dilemma was that one of the sons, President Jesse Adkins of the Washington Bar Association, had been proposed as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in which William S. Adkins, the other son, had long been a clerk. The law provides that no relative of a Federal judge shall be employed in that judge's court. Mr. Adkins Sr. asked that his able son should not be made a judge lest the other son lose his clerkship...
Alexander of Macedon ("The Great"), though he died many a century before George Washington, is still held in a mellow, Washingtonian esteem at Samarkand. The natives appear to have forgiven that he sacked and burned their city, remember only how he wrought great glory there, and refer to him affectionately as "Iskander Macedonski...