Word: distant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Britons felt pity, too-for nice old Sir Reginald Hervey Hoare, Britain's Minister. A distant cousin of Sir Samuel Hoare, he used to be quite a figure of a man-tall, with a handsome white-haired head, careless in dress and indolent of speech, kindly, dry, hospitable. He was a great friend of Carol, and used to converse with the King in Rumanian with a splendid British accent. But his health had gone, his retirement was long overdue, and the driving out of Carol left him at 58 broken and bitter. Last week he scurried about trying...
...Michigan Wolverines and the fatal afternoon of October 12, a real judgment day for 1940 Harvard football Tom Harmon, undoubtedly one of the three or four greatest runnings backs of all time, will provide the acid test. Cracking over a guard, slinging a touchdown pass, or skirting a distant flank are all in the day's work for this miracle man wearing the Maize and Blue. And he has the pleasing faculty of picking up anywhere from seven to 28 points during a Saturday matinee...
Finally it suggested that the United States arrange with Great Britain to share or assume control of the Singapore naval base and other British bases in the East so that the Japanese conquest of the East Indies from distant bases would be a practical impossibility...
Past Precedent. When Napoleon took the first step in his intended occupation of New Orleans, President Jefferson wrote in alarm to the U.S. Minister in Paris, Robert Livingston: "From that moment we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation." The marriage was postponed. Livingston, pertinacious, deaf, scholarly, distant relative of Franklin Roosevelt's wife, and James Monroe, whom Jefferson sent to France with instruction to do what he could to discourage Napoleon's ambitions in the New World, returned with news of an amazing bargain they had made. It ended for all time the danger...
Putting the Lux Radio Theatre on the air is a complicated business. Clearing rights to a script often takes weeks, and signing up stars is an uncertain enterprise. To make sure that cinema studios won't interrupt Lux plans by whisking actors away to distant locations, the Radio Theatre has established an elaborate understudy system. Rehearsals begin on Thursday, continue until air time Monday night. Part of the ritual of every rehearsal is a spot of tea, a custom introduced by Hollywood's British contingent. Seldom on hand until Saturday. De Mille, who receives $2,000 a week...