Word: tascherest
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...whistle was one of those which nightclub owners the world over love to pass out to their customers. Tootled shrilly by Argentine Ambassador Oscar Tascherest in the Imperial's supper club, it profoundly irritated the girl companion of a young British ex-officer named John Edwards. The Briton suggested that the Argentine desist. When Tascherest ignored the suggestion, Edwards took a tumbler of water and dropped a tiny trickle on the ambassador's head "to cool him off a bit." Tascherest retaliated by hurling a highball, with glass, at Edwards. "I thought then," explained Edwards later, "that...
From that point on, the situation deteriorated. A hot argument in French, Italian, English and Spanish raged through the corridors. Police were called. Everyone concerned, except the outraged ambassador, who refused to budge on grounds of diplomatic immunity, was hustled off to the local police station. Ambassador Tascherest, convinced that it was a deep-dyed political plot, next day lodged a diplomatic protest with Prime Minister Nehru...
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