Word: hustler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Queen Mary's stately bosom. Not since the late, lantern-jawed Col. George Harvey called down the sarcasm of the U. S. press by reverting to them in 1921, has a U. S. Ambassador to England failed to wear silk knee-breeches to Court. Ambassador Dawes, Chicago hustler, went in his none-too-neat dress suit with long trousers. Next day he read with relish in London's conservative Morning Post...
That night the Dawes baggage was hustled aboard a train for Scotland. Next morning the Ambassador was gazing happily at heaths and highlands. Well-primed, Hustler Dawes quoted Macbeth at the newsmen...
...round off his diplomatic debut, Hustler Dawes added this final fillip: "I consider that the time of old-fashioned diplomats is over and that people like myself, who are not careerists, have an opportunity for settling the affairs of the world...