Word: consulate
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...baby was born. Some were released. Finally, at summer's end, a group of 40 was released in a body, put aboard the Spanish ship the Cabo de Buena Esperanza (Cape of Good Hope), bound once more for Brazil. Their visas had been guaranteed by the Brazilian consul at Casablanca...
...occasion being Marais's 100th broadcast, there were other festal features. Marais fans, invited to attend, came in such numbers that NBC had to put on the show in its new, copper-lined theater. The Consul of the Union of South Africa came and testified that the "liedjies" (little songs) of Josef Marais brought back to him the "breath of the veld...
Augusto Rodriguez-Ulloa, consul from Honduras, described Latin American educational trends last night when he addressed 50 guests of the Harvard Spanish Club. Rodrignez-Ulloa especially stressed the increasing drift from the classics to the sciences...
...most of these TIME magazines came through to me safely in Nairobi. I must admit that I had to pick them up at four different places, namely general delivery of the main post office at Nairobi, several copies at the Army post office, several copies care of the U.S. Consul at Nairobi, and a number of copies came to me at the Stanley Hotel, but hardly a weekly issue was missing, which is a very fine tribute to British shipping and maintenance of postal services in these difficult times...
...hoary Hatha-Yoga secrets of vitality. These stimulated Alfred to an even more intrepid period of reporting. During World War I, a ripened newsman of 86, he entered Germany on a forged neutral passport, was arrested at Frankfort on the Main, was saved by the sportsmanship of the consul of the country from which Alfred supposedly came. In 1926 the mature reporter of 98 was arrested in Portugal, condemned to death, thrown into a dungeon. He escaped with a jailer's help and got back to England...