Word: consulate
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...Calais, centre of the machine-made lace industry, an employers' and workmen's committee of seven called politely at the offices of U. S. consul General James G. Carter, explained that what they were going to do was not directed against the people or the Government of the U. S. Then, while the voice of Henri Ravisse, Vice President of the Association of Lace and Tulle Manufacturers, boomed through loudspeakers, "Be calm! Be calm!" 20,000 burghers of Calais paraded mournfully through the streets...
...helpless!" exclaimed the Argentine Consul General at Berlin. "At the request of these young women's parents we have refused them visas to enter the Argentine. We have cabled our consuls at the ship's ports of call to stop them if possible. We have desired the police of Buenos Aires to prevent them from entering the city. What more...
...Delia J. Akeley, big game huntress whose late husband chose King Albert's site in 1920; Stanley Field, President of Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History; Dr. Robert M. Yerkes, Yale's ape expert; Dr. Lewis H. Weed of Johns Hopkins; James Gustavus Whiteley, Belgian Consul at Baltimore. He who would hunt apes or elephants on King Albert's 500,000 acres must have a scientific object in view...
...version was merely a brilliant condensation of a dull book. He was looked on with suspicion by the Austrian authorities in Italy, who thought he might be a Carbonaro, and finally was expelled from Milan. Later, when he had openly renounced his loyalty to Bonaparte and had been made consul at Trieste, suspicious Diplomat Metternich again forced his removal. He ended his days as consul of Civitavecchia, near Rome...
...publisher of one of them wrote to him: "The book must be sacred-nobody seemed even to dare to touch it." His friends were not sure of him: his remarks, written and printed, might have been irony but seemed to some people like treachery. Though he was a conscientious consul, he was perfectly cynical about politics, which never excited him. He died of a stroke on a Paris streetcorner, to the jeers of ragamuffins who thought he was drunk. Author of many books, he wrote at least two which are still read, which are perhaps "beginning to be understood...