Word: protocolic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cardinal? "I personally don't have the temperament or the psychological background for honors of this kind. I'm happy with this honor because the people are happy. It would have been much easier without it. I'm a man who doesn't take to protocol, social ecclesiastical standing, and other high places that go with the robes of a prince of the church. But I am tremendously grateful to the Pope...
Undaunted by the flood of protocol visits, teas, luncheons and dinners, the Queen and her children breasted swarms of friends and well-wishers, managed to turn up in perky form at every assembly on their calendar. At one function, Frederika was called to the telephone, delighted the company with her breezy informality by piping: "Excuse me, I have to go. My husband is calling me." Touring an American National Red Cross center with Red Cross President Alfred Gruenther, she asked if blood donors later got brandy with their coffee. General Gruen-ther told her no, added: "I understand...
...welcome Heuss, official Britain rolled out its full panoply of protocol, pomp and pageantry. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Margaret, Harold Macmillan and his Cabinet and Britain's military service chiefs were waiting, with smiles and handshakes, on a red carpet in London's grimy Victoria Station. Artillery in Hyde Park thundered in salute. The scarlet-coated band of the Scots Guards even broke into Deutschland über Alles. Headlined London's tabloid Daily Sketch: O.K., FRITZ, YOU'RE OUT OF THE DOGHOUSE...
...attraction of Christian goodness." That was what most men felt in the presence. It was in a sense ironic that this sophisticated diplomat, member of old Roman aristocracy, should become so popular a Pope. Before World War II, a papal audience for a layman was a prestigious and protocol-encrusted enterprise. Under Pius XII, however, a visit to the Pope was heartwarming and almost informal (he often studied the sports pages of newspapers as carefully as the political news, because at many audiences he was required to talk more about sports than politics...
Then, too, there are those who remember the rainy day last spring when the varsity baseball team was sent off for an away game at Cornell. A telephone call to Ithica, prior to departure time, was ruled out--apparently for seasons of "protocol." When the players arrived at Cayuga's waters and found playing conditions impossible, they were forced to turn around and fly right home. The whole fruitless venture cost $1000 in airplane tickets...