Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beautiful Angels. Three minutes later, a small, brisk motorcade drew up at the school's entrance. From the lead car, a snappy, red M.G., jumped two young men who identified themselves as Inspectors of Criminal Police, Royal Court Division. Another young man calling himself Chief of Protocol Baron Jacques Franck left the second car and asked to see the mother superior. "No preparations," he insisted. "Just call a governing council meeting, for the presentation to the King, then call an assembly of the students and serve a wine of honor." "What kind do you advise?" asked the agitated mother...
...four days of footloose fun. At the Hertford Hospital charity ball, she mingled with the best of the smart set, danced with Paul Auriol, son of the French President, and also came face to face with a brash American custom. A young Army civilian employee from Chicago threw royal protocol aside, introduced himself and asked for the next dance. Margaret was diplomatically delighted" to meet him, but, she said, "I'm terribly sorry, I seem to be booked up just now." The next evening at the home of Sir Alfred Duff Cooper, former British Ambassador to France, Margaret charmed...
...comes from nine years of practice, Huskey began grappling with the schedule and security arrangements for the royal visit 2½ months ago. First he was called in for a series of conferences with the royal advance agent, the ambassadors of Great Britain and Canada, and State's protocol experts. His was the voice that advised how much sightseeing could be accomplished in the time at hand, where the capital crowds would be thickest and where the risks would be greatest...
...Payoff of Protocol. In the banquets and speeches that followed, the Indonesians were polite but not Reddish; they have been having Communist trouble at home. The Burmese did a little better: their chief delegate toasted Mao and denounced the U.S. But the real payoff for the Reds came from Pandit Sundarlal, who had arrived in Peking proclaiming that India wants China's friendship, but also America's and Britain's. He had been "deeply impressed," he said, by what he saw: "Every Indian knows that the Soviet Union stands for peace, that China stands for peace...
Leaning heavily on the crutch of slapstick, Capra works hard to manufacture laughs out of such feeble stuff as the roistering antics of a drunken Irishman, the flowering of frustrated Alexis into hip-slinging whistle-bait, the arch effeminacy of the protocol expert at society weddings. He stages the film's one bright song (In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening) with the same frenzied use of silly props that he displayed in Riding High. Young Italian Soprano Anna Maria (The Medium) Alberghetti sings well in a long opening sequence that has nothing to do with the rest...