Word: wrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Soviet female envoy, met onetime Mexican President Plutarco Elias Calles in Berlin, crossed the Atlantic "on the same boat," remained in Mexico as Minister "until they quarreled" (TIME, Dec. 19, 1927). Last week this scarlet diplomat, wearing a black taffeta gown, drew about her shoulders a soft chinchilla wrap upon which blazed the Soviet Order of the Red Star, stepped into a Royal Coach. The equipage was that of Gustaf V, King of the Swedes. At a merry clip Comrade Kollontay whirled through the streets of Stockholm, alighted at the Palace, tripped in and handed to gangling, venerable King...
...sense of humor implies an ability for seeing the discrepaucies in even the most serious of our beliefs, and those of us who wrap our home-made philosophy in waxed paper, all ready to take home to the kiddies, are ignoring these discrepancies. We would do better to keep an open mind and take the best that human knowledge has to offer us and leave the sweeping statements to those whose limited knowledge permits them the Presumption of such generalities. Vassar Miscellany News...