Word: protocol
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...Arthur Radford. At 11 o'clock Jessie Wilson wearily told Mrs. Radford that she wished "somebody would do something" about going home. Confided Mrs. Radford: "Nobody can do anything until you do." The Wilsons, as they came to learn, were the highest-ranking guests at the party; Washington protocol forbade anyone's leaving before them...
...lifetime George V's character lay hidden behind a formidable beard and the equally protective barrier of royal protocol. In his new biography, Harold Nicolson looks behind beard and protocol to reveal a sovereign who took an active part in the making of history and a man who worked at the job of being King with all the conscientiousness his grandmama could have wished. Nicolson's biography is an authorized one, and his charter has restricted him to the official side of the King's life. But his success in extracting pure gold from the dull metal...
...Rome, the Luces settled into the newly refurbished embassy residence, Villa Taverna, while the Italian Foreign Ministry began rearranging precedent and protocol. Baron Michele Scammacca called on the new ambassador instead of waiting for her to make the usual protocol visit to him. "Since the ambassador is a lady," said a Foreign Office spokesman, "we have revised the rules of protocol." She is the junior ambassador in the Rome diplomatic corps, but under the new rules she will be seated at formal functions "as a lady" rather than as ambassador. This technically places her in the position usually assigned...
...Early arranged the party to honor Taft, who had just lost his second campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Taft rose to his feet and told his friends: "It isn't the honor or the glory of the office, the yacht and the White House and all the protocol. I believe deeply in my principles, and I want to put them into effect. The office of President has the power and the prestige to put those principles into effect. That's why I keep running...
...first time in years, he chatted pleasantly-a task that is far from easy for a man whose infrequent smiles seem to make his face ache. When the new U.S. ambassador, Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, arrived in Moscow to take up his post, Molotov sent his chief of protocol to the airport to shake his hand. The same day he talked for 49 minutes with the British ambassador, and asked after Foreign Secretary Eden's gallbladder complaint. With such small gestures, and vague hints of bigger ones to come, did Vyacheslav Molotov peddle his latest bill of goods marked "Peace...