Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scorching pen or the ability of the partisan, or whether there were other causes at work, is no longer known nor was it then, but it befell that victory came to the side of the partisan with the scorching pen. On victory followed strange mutations. The partisan became a diplomat, a courtier. The mind that had formulated the deadliest slings of politics turned genteel phrases. Words, always free to him, fell in modulated periods from his lips, tinted with no mean wit, with some felicity, some eccentricity. Being away, he was yet ever with his countrymen, catching their notice some...
...reporter next asked Mr. White if family prestige played an important part in the advancement of those who were actually in the Diplomatic Service. "Fortunately I am able to say that it does not," declared the noted diplomat, "although a young man who has been brought up in a family of good position and who has consequently met a very considerable number of people throughout his youth is more likely to know something more of the ways of the world, and of the best means of meeting people graciously than a man who has had no such opportunities...
...That Queen Marie, wife of Ferdinand and famed as "the ablest diplomat of the Balkans," once told...
...eyes of the world were upon a small patch of Italian territory* situate at 1400 New Hampshire Avenue in Washington, where lives Prince Gelasio Caetani, Italian Ambassador to the U. S., aristocratic diplomat, diplomatic aristocrat...
...diplomatic pen protested against the immigration cut as being an unjust discrimination against Italians. That was all. Diplomatic necessity had dictated that a note be written to U. S. Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, but there was written into it Caetani's personal aristocratic restraint. His predecessor, Signor Vittorio Ricci, in a similar situation, once made a speech attacking the U. S. Congress in no uncertain terms. He went to Rome on a vacation which has not yet ended. Prince Gelasio's diplomacy is of a higher order and he merits the epithet of aristocratic diplomat, diplomatic aristocrat...