Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This explosion was the counterblast to a series of remarks by diplomat Sir Malcolm Delevingne, the British representative. Sir Malcolm, to be sure, had charged -though in the most diplomatic way-that the Chinese government is corrupt, and asserted that the International Anti-Opium Association recently informed him of an instance in which 220 lb. of morphine* was allowed to enter China on permits signed by high Chinese officials...
...English diplomat is at present enrolled in Trinity College of Cambridge. It was not made known what field of study Howard will engage in while at the University, although he will probably continue his work in history and literature which has occupied his efforts at the British institution. The remaining two Cambridge students who were awarded scholarships by the committee, are Arthur MacDonald of St. Johns College, and C. D. G. Nicholson of Jesus College. The former will be enrolled in Yale, while Nicholson will take up his studies at Princeton, in the field of architecture...
...thank you," says the diplomat; "I thank you very much. But where are the leaders...
...What diplomat said last week: "There is no justice in this world...
...took her back to run her chances among the big hotels, casinos, studios and half-soled, titled Romeos-if she had not finally fallen into the hands of a successful artist and a genuine British dowager. You know what end awaited Mrs. Katherine Mandeville Richardson, the U. S. diplomat's relict, if she had not had the fabulous good fortune to hook the childish millionaire, Samuel Gummidge Bunker, after trickery at roulette had failed her. You even know that not all artists are so comparatively happy, chivalrous and well-heeled as Leslie Waldron, not all dowagers so sensible...