Word: diplomatically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crackup. There the trail ended. But police and newsmen were also following another trail, into the two men's past. On the surface, tall, erudite Donald MacLean looked the very model of the modern British diplomat. He won honors at Cambridge, was a member of a respectable Scots family. His father, Sir Donald, was a leader of the Liberal Party, made such repetitious speeches that he inspired a parliamentary ditty: "Sir Donald MacLean, he says it over & over again." No stuffy diplomat, young MacLean loved gay parties; he and his attractive American wife often entertained in their Georgetown house...
Punches & Bows. Take Lima, and me, if you please. I came back to Peru twelve years ago after 26 years abroad (I was a kid when I started traveling with my father, who was a Peruvian diplomat and author). First thing that impressed me here was that my countrymen were an emotional lot. Next I noticed that they were given to using high-sounding polysyllables and superlatives. Like Dr. Samuel Johnson, if a limeño "were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." In fact, Latins in general treat four-syllable words with the careless ease...
...year-old diplomat will be awarded the University's highest honorary degree, that of Doctor of Laws, for his leadership in the United Nations in the behalf of world peace. Secretary of State Dean G. Acheson, LL.B. '18, received the same degree last year...
...home-town audience in Baltimore last week, wealthy, socialite ex-Diplomat James Bruce described a couple of friendships he made when he was U.S. Ambassador to Argentina from...
Interviewed in Oakland on her arrival from Tokyo, Mrs. Phyllis Gibbons, widow of a British diplomat and tutor for the past five years to Arthur MacArthur, described her young charge. He has, she said, "an outstanding talent for music." Otherwise, "he is just an ordinary American boy, like your son or mine. He is quite intelligent, but he can't spell-what American...