Word: doyen
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...know you! And I don't answer you!" But as he faced no less than 100 newshawks who swarmed outside the City of Norfolk's, Cabin 18, the newest member of the Supreme Court was affability itself. Addressing Jesse Frederick Essary, Baltimore Sun man who is Doyen of the Washington press corps, as "Fred," he drew him into the cabin, consulted with him and then sent him back out into the corridor with word that an interview would follow breakfast. Then Mr. Justice Black popped his head out in the hall to order ham & eggs; refused a pile...
Those wise in hierarchical ways were not surprised at the appointment of Cardinal Pacelli. Besides being the "most loved pupil" of Secretary-emeritus Gasparri, he can point to excellent Vatican connections. His father, Filippo, was Doyen of the consistorial advocates...
...wine. Most smart U. S. citizens have stopped at one or another of his luxury hotels- the Berkeley, Claridge's, the Savoy-but few know that the presumably go-getting General Director of these up-to-date hostels is in fact contemplative Mr. Reeves-Smith, venerable doyen of British wine connoisseurs...
...Greed." As doyen of the Corps Diplomatique, the Spanish Ambassador Count José Maria Quiñones de Leon delivered himself of an ornate bouquet of phrases into one of which he startlingly introduced the wasp word "greed...
...Michael, the doyen of all Bloomsbury felines, was quite as proud and pompous as the gloomy edifice he guarded. Residents of Bloomsbury, whose suspicion of strangers is chronic and world-famed, reminded each other last week that "Old Mike" spoke to nobody, and would only allow two people to pet him: his owner, the official gatekeeper, and that eminent Egyptologist Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Hiley's Elegy on Cat Mike treats of this in the stanza: He cared for none - save only two: For these he purred, for these he played, And let himself be stroked, and laid...