Word: parleyed
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...cuisine. Most distinguished of the guests was Alanson B. Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, attired immaculately as ever, owlish in his heavy horn-rimmed spectacles. His presence at the political feast, considered a signficant sign of U. S. interest in the security parley, despite unequivocal and official denials, was a topic of discussion for days after. Rightly or wrongly, the U. S. Ambassador was credited with having prepared the way when he was in Berlin for the security proposals which last February emanated from Germany...
...universal opinion of the German note was that it marked the beginning of a new spirit of peace and goodwill in Europe and left the door wide open to a frank discussion of the issues involved in a parley to be called probably in August...
...Second International Opium Conference at Geneva (the longest parley in the history of the League of Nations), which suffered its ups and downs for three months (TIME, Nov. 24, et seq.), came to an end last week when Belgium, Britain, Australia, Greece, Japan, Luxembourg, Holland, Persia, Portugal and Siam, out of 40 nations represented at the conference, signed an Opium Convention and Protocol. More nations may yet sign...
After weeks of discussion and quarrels, the net result of the parley was reported...
...trade parley continued...