Word: whites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Thomas Summerlin, 67, an urbane West Pointer from Louisiana who rolls his own cigarets, rested last week in Washington after mighty labors. So did Colonel Edward W. Starling. The former as chief of the State Department's Division of Protocol, the latter as chief of the White House detail of Secret Service, are explicitly responsible for the safety of Their Majesties George VI & Elizabeth during their visit to the U. S. this week...
...other preparatory details. Protocol finally determined that Chief Justice Hughes (if well enough to attend) would rank British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay at the President's State dinner, since the King would then represent himself. Mrs. Henrietta Nesbit, the White Housekeeper, noticed that Their Majesties ate a lot of strawberries in Canada, ordered a supply. Fields, the White House butler, decided to use the new F. D. R. china (white Lenox with cobalt & gold bands). He put polishers on the state service whose gold plating was begun under President Harrison, continued under McKinley, finished under Coolidge...
...Roosevelt learned that His Majesty likes a down puff at the foot of his bed, but Her Majesty does not. She equipped their beds in the White House with new springs & mattresses on the advice of her sons that the old ones were rock hard. She worried about the water being turned on in Mr. Roosevelt's "dream cottage" at Hyde Park, where royalty would picnic Sunday. Princess Te Ata, a Choctaw-Chickasaw half-breed from Oklahoma, was engaged to tell Indian tales at the Hyde Park hot-dog fest. Her newspaper syndicate announced that she would describe Their...
After a week of training at Cambridge, the Crimson-Blue forces will go to White City, near London, to clash with the English team on July 15. The British outfit will be out to make it three in a row over the Yale-Harvard combine, which tasted victory last in the summer...
...connotations. In a drugstore not far from Harvard Square someone who evidently combined a penchant for window trimming with an unmistakable patriotic zeal arranged a display window with various medicines and flags. Squarely in the center of this nest of cough-and-cold remedies, salves, and tonics a soulful white cross had been arranged. And, at the intersection of the cross was inscribed...