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Word: diplomatic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before they reach Cherbourg, Franklin Challoner's daughter is infatuated with a Latin-American diplomat who combines the qualities of a grandee and a, waiter. She is quite "over" Tony. When they reach Cherbourg, all she wants is revenge. But Tony does not no tice her proud posturing. His eyes are upon Shirley. He has to tell Shirley about David. David, back in New York where she might just as well have stayed with him, is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...Chambrun, aged 20, was last week almost jailed in Paris for speeding in his car. The Magistrate let him off with a double fine; assured him of eight days' prison for a second offense. He, son of my sister Clara, is studying to be a diplomat. As his uncle is French Ambassador to Austria, his father General in Command of French troops in Morocco, and as he is also descended from La Fayette, perhaps he will make good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 24, 1927 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...diplomat and his wife (be they from Siam or Switzerland) found Washington a handshaking city on New Year's Day. Having celebrated the end of 1926 according to their tastes, they arose at 9:45 a.m., snatched a cup of coffee and hurried to the White House to be in line for the President and Mrs. Coolidge at 11. Then they went to the lavish Pan-American Building to have a diplomatic buffet breakfast with the Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg. As they smoked Mr. Kellogg's cigarets and watched the Aztec fountain play, they exchanged many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Iron Puddler, Moose | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

That afternoon, had the diplomat and his wife been extremely agile, they could have called on seven other Cabinet members who were holding receptions in keeping with the annual custom. Only Attorney General Sargent, whose wife had gone home to frosty Vermont, and Secretary of the Interior Work, who is a widower, did not serve tea. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, with his son Paul, received at his apartment on Massachusetts Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Iron Puddler, Moose | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...diplomat had drawn any conclusion from his social tour, it would be that the present Cabinet is a steady one. None of its members seem likely to resign at present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Iron Puddler, Moose | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

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