Word: ambassador
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Phelps Phelps began petting the voters before he was through college (Yale, Williams). He dances at all functions-motormen's, modists', the Social Register's. His grandfather, the late William Walter Phelps, was (1889-93) U. S. Ambassador to Germany.* The grandson is an ambassador of the sidewalks to the agronomists and small-towners at Albany-fat-faced, loud, generous, shrewd, a smoker of cigars at every waking moment. He professes not even to afford a motorcar in which to battle Matron Pratt...
Died. George S. Bakhmeteff, last Ambassador of Tsarist Russia to the U. S. (1911-17); of heart disease; in exile; at Paris...
...Aristide Briand, granting him inspirational credit in the authorship of the treaty. Twenty-five minutes later Mr. Kellogg was in a train which rattled into the Gare St.-Lazare, Paris, 45 minutes ahead of schedule, to the discomfiture of newsmen, of whom only one, forlorn, was present. U. S. Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick, prominent welcomer, arrived at the station late...
Thereafter Mr. Kellogg lunched with Ambassador Herrick, spoke with M. Aristide Briand ("a pleasant talk"), again dined at the Herrick table...
They could not keep Jules, doorman for M. Briand, from appearing in all his medals. Jules said "War is abominable, but the army ... is fine." Also spoke Jules, "This American, too, Mr. Kellogg. Perhaps he will get to understand France better, like the American Ambassador does, and will make jokes and laugh like Mr. Herrick does with M. Briand...