Word: daeschner
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...Emile Daeschner, French Ambassador, came from Washington to Manhattan, put up at the Hotel Plaza. Up went the tri-color on a second flagpole...
Concerning the account in your issue of Feb. 9 of the presenting by the new French Ambassador of his credentials to Mr. Coolidge, I found the item not only informing but entertaining. I was particularly delighted by the part in which you described a hypothetical scene between Monsieur Daeschner and the President...
...alleged that M. Daeschner bowed, pressed a packet of papers into the President's hands and burst forth into felicitous words, as follows...
...Daeschner, when he was so gracefully ushered in by Mr. J. Butler Wright, had exclaimed "Pooh!" and spat upon the carpet; if the President, in rejoinder, had ejaculated, "Bah!" and blown his nose with rage, the public would have been none the wiser...
Indeed, the report of their remarks would probably have been substantially the same. For M. Daeschner had carefully penned his remarks in advance and sent them to the White House for the President's approval. Whereupon the President, with equally calculating eloquence, penned his reply and sent it to the Ambassador, so that neither of them might be taken aback by the other's expressions...