Word: diplomat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Countess Szembeck's justly praised "swanlike neck" yielded a $7,000 string of pearls. Diplomat Davila's fat roll of banknotes amounted, he later claimed, to "more than...
...Berlin reception was stimulated by more than a freakish operatic frame work. Christopher Columbus was written by two famed Frenchmen, by Poet Paul Claudel, Ambassador to the U. S., and Composer Darius Milhaud. Milhaud is also a onetime diplomat. Wartime Paris was a poor hunting-ground for young musicians. Many were forced to other means of livelihood and Milhaud, a prize Conservatory graduate, went to Brazil in 1917 as attaché to the French legation there. In two years, however, he was back in Paris, leader of the Six? whose modern musical renown grew from their union. For some critics even...
...temperament of the women and the spirit of the pilgrimage in mind. Many will be hysterical under the slightest provocation. You must be ready to meet any unusual condition. . . . You must exercise patience and forebearance and you must possess a sense of humor. If you are not a diplomat now, you will...
...talent for speechifying has also bred many a college legend. At a banquet tendered to the Swedish Ambassador and attended by the late William Jennings Bryan, the diplomat read an address...
...President Hoover last week promoted Fred Morris Bearing, career diplomat of Columbia', Mo., from Minister to Portugal to Ambassador to Peru. He appointed John Glover South of Kentucky to succeed Mr. Dearing at Lisbon. Also appointed: Charles B. Rugg of Worcester, Mass., to be an Assistant Attorney General...