Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With such icy propriety and protocol, the bureaucrats of the armistice last week went about their ticklish jobs...
Distant Aim. This week both Nixon and Knowland were planning trips through the Far East. Departing early in October, the grocer's son will go as the representative of the President, surrounded by protocol, ceremony, official conferences and social events. Departing late in August, the wealthy publisher-politician's "son will go on his own, at his own expense, without much benefit of protocol or pomp...
Last week the U.S. sent a Minister Plenipotentiary to the exhibition: William H. Ball, of the fruit-jar and rubber-products family of Muncie, Ind. In his honor, protocol demanded that The Star-Spangled Banner be played. Unable to find a score in all Rhodesia, the sponsors finally discovered a fellow who makes a hobby of collecting records of national anthems. From an old recording of his, copyists worked out an arrangement in time for a gala performance of Aïda. The colonials also raised the Stars & Stripes over the exhibition grounds. But their enthusiasm soon faded a little...
...information to Britain or the U.S., he bypassed their emissaries 40 miles away and sent word halfway around the world to his ambassadors to go see the Foreign Office or the State Department. The only direct, official link between the foreign minister and the diplomats was a lone assistant protocol officer left behind in Tel Aviv, and even he disappeared for four days last week to take his law examination...
...Walk with strange ladies. Let Sir Roger reflect that his predecessors of 20 years ago had it even rougher: no champagne or Scotch to wash the stuff down with ... At least, in this age of lavender-pink potatoes and policies, Sir Roger does not have to face the grim protocol of Prohibition, which moved the compassion of Hilaire Belloc...