Word: protocole
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presentation of a foreign Ambassador to the President of the U. S. is usually heavy business, ribboned with red-tape, bound by strictest protocol. But one day last week ribbon and tape went out the White House window when a big black limousine, tagged DPL-I, swung around the little pavement-circle before the Executive wing. Out stepped six-foot, rosy-cheeked Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Carr), Marquess of Lothian, Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle and Baron Ker. This...
...sugar-scoop coat or high hat clothed Lord Lothian. To the confusion of protocol, he wore a black pin-stripe business suit, a loosely knotted dark tie, black bump-toed shoes, glasses with light grey plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door to the Executive offices (the left is always locked), walked over the black-and-white checkered linoleum, around the Philippine red narra table and back to the President's office. He gave his hat to Pat McKenna, ancient doorguard, and walked...
George Thomas Summerlin, 67, an urbane West Pointer from Louisiana who rolls his own cigarets, rested last week in Washington after mighty labors. So did Colonel Edward W. Starling. The former as chief of the State Department's Division of Protocol, the latter as chief of the White House detail of Secret Service, are explicitly responsible for the safety of Their Majesties George VI & Elizabeth during their visit to the U. S. this week...
...other preparatory details. Protocol finally determined that Chief Justice Hughes (if well enough to attend) would rank British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay at the President's State dinner, since the King would then represent himself. Mrs. Henrietta Nesbit, the White Housekeeper, noticed that Their Majesties ate a lot of strawberries in Canada, ordered a supply. Fields, the White House butler, decided to use the new F. D. R. china (white Lenox with cobalt & gold bands). He put polishers on the state service whose gold plating was begun under President Harrison, continued under McKinley, finished under Coolidge...
...They all curtsied wrong-ways (right foot behind the left). Then Cecile departed from protocol. She rushed over and kissed the Queen. In a trice Elizabeth, lonesome despite the previous day's telephone call to her own two daughters, was on her knees in a flurry of kissing Quintuplets. Forgotten man for the moment was the King, in his Navy uniform, but Yvonne fixed that, running to him and taking his hand. Soon they were in brisk French conversation over the King's Navy buttons...