Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the diningroom walls, President and Mrs. Coolidge, in oils, gaze coolly down upon the throng. (Taft and Wilson are in the foyer; Roosevelt in the hall. All the Presidents except Harding hang somewhere in the White House...
...often judgments based on such opportunism prevail among statesmen, but England has still her champions of morality. Whate'er betide, none will be found stauncher than two famed scions of the historic House of Cecil. The elder of these two brothers, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, winner of the Woodrow Wilson $25,000 Peace Award (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924), resigned as British delegate to the League of Nations when he came to feel that the Empire was not fulfilling its whole moral duty to the League...
...Camerlynck. Death found him, last week, in Paris, five days after he had taken to bed with influenza. As Chief Interpreter of the Paris Peace Conference, the Washington Conference, and the First Dawes Committee, Professor Camerlynck received the personal thanks of such statesmen as David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson. He was to have interpreted for the new Second Dawes Committee (see col. 2). As illness stole upon him last fortnight, Professor Camerlynck interpreted, for the last time, between Prime Minister Raymond Poincare of France (who speaks no English) and the Agent General of Reparations, Seymour Parker Gilbert (who learned...
...special art that this little man from Flanders brought facility and fidelity which at times seemed miraculous. Gliding like an actor imperceptibly into the rôle of the statesman for whom he was translating, Professor Camerlynck would seem to become by turns Statesmen Lloyd George, Clémenceau, Wilson, Balfour, Hughes, Briand, Dawes or perhaps that wily Greek, old Eleutherios Venizelos. "We Greeks!" M. Camerlynck would cry, "We Greeks demand so-and-so as our rightful, our inalienable heritage...
...chance of a lifetime which turned a brittle, impecunious professor into the confidant of the Big Three at their most secret and vital meetings. Perhaps M. Camerlynck was even present on that celebrated evening when Georges Clémenceau and David Lloyd George are supposed to have gotten Woodrow Wilson convivially stimulated,, but if so the little Fleming never told. When asked in his later years: "Why don't you write your memoirs?" Gustave Henri Camerlynck always laconically replied. "I know too much." He was 60 when Death came...