Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Almost before Their Majesties' salon pullman stopped before Lord Byng, the door flew open. Out popped a deep-dimpled little girl in blue, her chubby legs cased in white gaiters. She gave a joyous hop-skip-and-jump along the platform and almost plumped into Byng of Vimy. He, deftly sidestepping, punctiliously bowed to irrepressible "Baby Betty," Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, only granddaughter and unspoiled darling of George V. When His Majesty followed the babe it was seen at once that he did look younger. His cheeks were a breeze-tanned brown. Faultlessly groomed, firm of step...
Cheers were not louder even in Moscow last week, where convalescent Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin made an almost exactly similar theatre appearance. Comrade Stalin clapped an actress who sang a Georgian love song. King-Emperor George V clapped vigorously the lilting, sentimental songs of plump, brunette Edith Day, born 33 years ago in Minneapolis...
Later in the week at a meeting of the National Labor Club, Scot MacDonald told how he had been "struck by President Hoover's quiet forcefulness. . . . His powerful way of furthering an argument made me almost smile in his face and exclaim to him out of the happiness of my soul: 'Oh, you dear old Quaker...
...made an island of refuge. On it huddled a group of the same peons who had waved to him three days earlier, men, women, children. They were completely marooned. Inch by inch the lava stream crept higher. There was no possible escape. Even in the plane the heat was almost unbearable...
There were 47 works by French painters and sculptors, two by French poets, one by a dressmaker.* With the exception of Pablo Picasso, almost every famed name in modern French painting was represented. Henri Matisse saw Lani in three lines, Andre Derain painted her very swarthily, Haim Soutine as a Spectre. One painter gave her 14 eyes, another seven, another one. She was seen as a machine, as a horned toad, as a Negress. Galleryman Brummer shrewdly put no photographs of her on exhibition...