Word: pertinax
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Correspondents were told that Negative Stimson would soon follow the lead of Positive Tardieu by laying down a similar hand for the U. S. when enough cards are on the table there can begin, not the game, but a shuffle and first deal. "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud), pungent correspondent of L'Echo de Paris, wired to his paper: "Secretary Stimson was overheard to re-mark : 1 wish this conference would waste a good deal more time...
...other side of the prize ring the Paris press stormed, catcalled. "It is possible to say," wrote famed authoritative "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud) in L'Echo de Paris, "that never before has so bitter a quarrel raged between London and Paris...
Therefore Mr. Herrick must have received with pain, last week, a thoroughgoing flaying administered by M. Andre Geraud, famed as "Pertinax," redoubtable Foreign Editor of L'Echo de Paris. Seizing upon a rumor that the Ambassador was about to resign, "Pertinax" apostrophized...
Explaining, "Pertinax" went on to charge that Ambassador Herrick has been "so good a friend to France" as to have unwittingly deceived her statesmen by his own Francophility into th King that the U. S. would...
Doubtless anticipated by "Pertinax," last week, was an immediate denial from Ambassador Herrick that he intends to resign...