Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning down Washington's broad, smug streets glide sleek gleaming Rolls-Royces, lean sport cars, great grey-lined limousines. Liveried chauffeurs pull up gracefully in front of buildings gay or sombre with grey, blue, green, yellow, black, purple, red-flags of varied designs. Out step pompous diplomats, flick imaginary dust from immaculate morning coats, stride self-conciously up their embassy walks with top-hats a-glinting in the morning sun. Ah!-to be a diplomat! Last week Don Juan Riano y Gayangos, dean* of all Washington diplomats, Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of His Most Catholic Majesty Alfonso XIII...
...Miss Fairneld is famed in England for being a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a doctor of medicine, a bachelor of surgery, a barrister of the Middle Temple (law) a diplomat in public health...
Five years ago, one solemn morning, many a statesman, many 'a senator, many a silk-hatted diplomat wound slowly through Washington's broad streets, crossed the green slopes beyond to Arlington, stood uncovered before the casket of the Unknown Soldier. John Wingate Weeks defied physicians' instructions, stood bareheaded that awesome morning, shortly afterwards became ill. Last week he died...
Last week a Paris court declared null and void the marriage of Count Jacques Bouly de Lesdain, explorer-journalist, and Mabel Bailey of Chicago. According to French law, a Frenchman marrying abroad must have the ceremony performed either by a French diplomatic agent, or in the custom of the country of residence at the time. Neither of these conditions were fulfilled. A Belgian missionary is not a French diplomat. Mongolian custom says that a man must either capture his wife in a horse galloping ceremony, or buy her from her family (ten ewe lambs being the price of a maiden...
...cabled to all the English-speaking world; last week the wires crepitated with the announcement that he had started for Poland to be rude to Marshal Pilsudski. And suddenly a full page advertisement in the leading papers throughout the U. S. heralded the LETTERS OF A SELF MADE DIPLOMAT TO HIS PRESIDENT. A Collection of the Intimate Papers and Letters That is Changing Hands during these Perilous Times of Peace between Our President and his Ambassador - Without P o r t-folio-Will Rogers...