Word: talleyrand
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...Louis Philippe, who genially reminded him of former oaths of allegiance under other masters, it is reported that Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, on swearing loyalty in 1830, replied, "Sire, you are the thirteenth!" This little folk-tale, though exaggerated in fact, is quite accurate in spirit, and its spirit has given rise to the fitting title of Crane Brinton's highly readable biography, "The Lives of Talleyrand...
Iron-master Stalin yesterday showed a two-sided complexity that would do credit to a Talleyrand. In his recent interview with Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, he categorically states, in direct confirmation of the views of Chamberlin and Duranty, that non-interference, no Communist Party subsidizing, and peace with America stand primly and companionably among a row of other ideals...
...Talleyrand? This nettled only the discomfited questioner. Soon the correspondents as a group were agreeing with the President's secretaries that in diplomacy he is very adroit, revels in doing "the smart thing," and would have made a perfect Ambassador in the great days of diplomacy, a sort of Talleyrand. The master stroke delivered by Talleyrand Roosevelt last week was to have the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires inform Emperor Power of Trinity that...
...declared that the Class of 1910 had several degrees to confer on its members. A diploma was claimed to be the most useless thing in the world, and for this reason fans were presented with the comment that the Class would have to be "like Sally Rand, not Talleyrand." George A. Parker '10 was the first to be honored. Mr. Parker was the head of the state police of Massachusetts, and he was called the guide of 1910 and its sons and their hope for days to come...
...somebody to get up on his hind legs and howl !" Up on his hind legs was precisely where General Johnson got and howl he did at the radio pastor of Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower: "While I do not for a moment compare Father Coughlin with Talleyrand, it is no exaggeration to say that, through the doorway of his priestly office, covered in his designs by the sanctity of the robe he wears. Father Coughlin, by the cheap strategy of appealing to the envy of those who have nothing for those who have something, has become...