Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Badger's Paws. Göring was simple and unaffected when he welcomed Welles to his garish home, Karinhall, in the flat North German birch and pine woods. But the U.S. diplomat could not keep his eyes off the tubby Nazi's hands, which were "shaped like the digging paws of a badger." On his right hand Göring wore an enormous ring set with six huge diamonds; on his left he wore an emerald at least an inch square. Göring's hands were presumably more eloquent of German intentions than anything Welles heard...
...conference danced: Mignon MacLean, a blond diplomat from Arthur Murray's dance studios, turned up and soon had bewitched 20 of the 1,300 wise and wizened men of finance into signing up for dancing lessons...
...would be worthless unless Washington endorsed it. No one expected the U.S. Government to grant De Gaulle & Co. outright recognition. But Algiers was optimistic, hopeful that le grand Charlie and Franklin Roosevelt would get along far better in Washington, than they did last year in Casablanca. Cracked a foreign diplomat in expectant Washington: "Us ne passeront pas devant le maire* but there will be a common-law marriage...
Only available transportation to the coast was by boxcar, hardly suitable for an Ambassador. Lieut. Garcia proved to be a diplomat in uniform. Tactfully, he ordered a parlor car. As he knew all along, no parlor car was available. Next morning, with full protocol, Lieut. Garcia ushered the Ambassadorial party into a private boxcar, provided them with C-rations, and started them off toward home...
...been handed his passport, had been told to get out of the country as soon as he could arrange it. Thus, in a way almost unprecedented in U.S. history,* ended the Washington career of the man who only a few years ago was the capital's most lionized diplomat...