Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home of Lady Seaforth, hospital benefactress. Because she asked them and because Mrs. Spahlinger was the Countess Charlotte Mary Gandolfi-Hornyold, member of an Italian ducal family which has become more English than Italian, there came to Berkeley Square a distinguished company. It included the Marquess of Crewe, statesman, diplomat, minor poet; Major-General Sir Frederick Barton Maurice; Dr. Sir Harry Edwin Bruce Bruce-Porter. To them Henry Spahlinger dramatically announced that he was about to place his formula at the disposal of the world, free of charge...
...Gregorious. His portraits of the Archbishop, the Prince and his wife, gave his work the cachet it needed. Since then he has immortalized almost the entire Almanack de Gotha, visited every royal court except that of China. Like every brilliantly successful court portraitist, he has had to be a diplomat as well as an artist. The Countess Greffulh is almost unique among his subjects in that she considered his painting of her insufficiently lovely. Immensely popular with his patrons, Artist de Laszlo is somewhat less admired by artists, who doubtless envy him his income. He can console himself...
...wish to be away from his office so long. Dwight Whitney Morrow, ablest of U. S. conference negotiators, was dead. Elder Statesman Elihu Root was too old and fragile for the job. Charles Evans Hughes was out of reach on the Supreme Court. Henry Prather Fletcher, shrewd diplomat, refused to serve unless, it was reported, he was made chairman of the delegation. No less unwilling were Republican Senators to absent themselves from their legislative duties to go on a diplomatic mission on the eve of an important political campaign. The President's inability to round up a top-notch delegation...
...must resent an unsubstantiated accusation of treason against the President." No idle threat against Congressman McFadden was Mrs. Pinchot's candidacy. Great-granddaughter of the late great Peter Cooper, Manhattan philanthropist and manufacturer of the first U. S. steam locomotive,* daughter of the late Congressman, editor and diplomat, Lloyd Stephens Bryce, auburn-haired Cornelia Pinchot is a consummate politician. Bluntspoken, quick-witted, shrewd, she is quite the peer of her husband on the stump. Outdoorish in her interests, she has landscaped the Pinchot estate, holds a permit to carry a gun (kidnapping threats have been made against her only...
...Japanese Delegate Mr. Yoshizawa had agreed to a "truce"'-whereupon both orientals denied the official announcement. In Tokyo reports that Mr. Yoshizawa had used the word "truce" (thus giving away Japan's pretense that she is not at war; created such towering indignation that the diplomat's recall was rumored and almost every Japanese newspaper flayed him. Later he explained that he had not said "truce," was apparently forgiven...