Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. James Rosedale Wadel Ward, 103, linguist, physician, diplomat, onetime private secretary to Empress Eugenie of France; in Manhattan. He spoke 21 languages, seven dialects, was with explorer Sir Henry Norton Stanley in Africa. Upon his father's death (age: 106) Mr. Ward succeeded him as British consul in Palestine...
Without setting out to be such, Erich Maria Remarque may be honored as a new type of international diplomat, an ambassador of peace to the people of all nations...
...with her real-and-screen husband, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., but this is no sign of fundamental joy. For the story tells you that he has betrayed her with comely Anita Page, who elegantly pantomimes a girl's first inchoate raptures. And Joan has flirted dangerously with a young diplomat for purposes of getting her husband a better job. All might have been well had not the husband's indiscretions suddenly taken an obstetrical turn. Hearing this, his wife has nothing to do but go to Paris for a divorce. There she conveniently meets the diplomat. The picture...
Died. Rt. Hon. Sir Ernest Mason Satow, 86, of Devonshire, England, one-time British Minister to Japan, China; author (A Gidde to Diplomatic Practice, A Diplomat in Japan) ; in Devonshire...
...Cierva, son of a Spanish diplomat, has been building air machines since he was 16. Eleven years ago a trimotored job which he designed crashed on its first flight with one of his friends. The accident set him striving for safety...