Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thursday, March 8, before a dinner which will be given for him. Edward Burlingame Hill '94, professor of Music, will be host to Mr. Troyanovsky at lunch; William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, and Mrs. Hocking will entertain the visiting diplomat at a tea in the afternoon...
...graft to anyone in the world, and I never intend to. If I were given to bribery I could easily have bribed myself into a rocking-chair job in the Army or Navy during the War and would have avoided all the trouble I had. But I was no diplomat...
Back in Zenith he tells his married daughter that Fran ran the house better than she. He returns to Europe to find his wife slipping from the arms of a sleek diplomat into those of an Austrian blue-blood whom, in a flare of temper, she determines to marry. Wandering around Italy waiting for his divorce, Sam finds a woman with whom he is happy (Mrs. Walter Huston). Fran's romance crashes and she calls him back, but Sam gets off the boat in time...
SLOW DEATH AT GENEVA-"Diplomat" -Coward-McCann ($2). Young Dennis Tyler has to look after the victim, do his work at the Conference, chat affably with many persons, keep it all out of the papers, while he finds a murderer. And well he does it, against a convincing background of international small talk and intrigue...
...little tin-god told newspaper men to publish, as soon as he arrived at Le Bourget, the fact that he was a simple fellow, who brought with him some sandwiches and several letters of introduction; that his stay in Paris was continually under the guiding hand of that master diplomat, Ambassader Herrick, who saw the international value of Lindbergh's flight; that Lindbergh's return to New York, especially his clever treatment of the innumerable stories released concerning him and his mother, was, and still is, considered a masterpiece in the art of handling publicity? I have nothing against...