Word: protocole
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protocol. At the Utah State Prison. Warden J. H. Harris warned his charges not to use the colloquialism, "We wuz robbed!" during baseball games. Both umpires, he explained, were doing time for robbery...
Comment ça va? While the smoke from the guns curled up into the haze, Henri Hoppenot, De Gaulle's representative in the U.S., introduced his chief to the State Department's Protocol Chief George T. Summerlin. The three men walked over to a little group of top French and U.S. military men. "Very glad," said De Gaulle, in his rehearsed English, stiffly shaking General Marshall's hand. He passed on to General Arnold, Admiral King, and Lieut...
...Vandegrift (of the Marines), to Major General Watson and Vice Admiral Brown, White House aides. A U.S. Air Forces band blared the Marseillaise and the Star Spangled Banner (an honor re served for heads of states, members of reigning royal families, and diplomats of ambassadorial rank, according to strict protocol). General de Gaulle's body clicked into ramrod attention, two stars gleaming just above the cuff-line of his saluting...
Anna did not get in as much trouble over religion or her antislavery views as over protocol. On a royal invitation, it was said, she had put the name of the U.S. consul below that of the English consul, and the American protested to the King...
...Hjalmar Johan Procopé entered a side door of the gloomy old State Department, was ushered into the office of the protocol chief, bald, urbane George T. Summerlin. Fifteen minutes later Mr. Procopé hurried out, brusque and ruffled. The Finnish Minister to the U.S. had been handed his passport, had been told to get out of the country as soon as he could arrange it. Thus, in a way almost unprecedented in U.S. history,* ended the Washington career of the man who only a few years ago was the capital's most lionized diplomat...