Word: consulation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steam automobile; a lawsuit for alienating the affections of another man's wife; an escapade during the War; landing in the U. S. with 50 trunks which took him three hours and $1,400 to get by the Customs Officials; a passport seizure by the American Consul in Paris; the importation from Egypt of an awning valued at $50,000, the result of three years' work, which he spread over the veranda of his Newport villa-all these are chapters in his variegated career...
...Pavloff's next destination was to have been the Edinburgh Congress of Physiology, which he had been officially invited to address, but the British Consulate in New York refused to visé his passport because subjects of Soviet Russia are not being admitted to the tight little island without special permission from the Foreign Office. Pavloff, being a citizen of Russia, necessarily travels under a passport granted by its government, but he is personally an anti-Bolshevik and takes no part in politics. The French consul was more of a realist, and the professor will probably land at Cherbourg...
...author of these " amazingly intimate revelations of the loves, feuds, intrigues, pranks, and personalities of Society's ' circus,' " is Mrs. Thelma Morgan Converse, daughter of Harry Hays Morgan, American Consul-General at Brussels, and wife of James Vail Converse...
...recriminations. The British lines, in their practice of booking immigrants for sailing before passports are viséd, have filled what they believe will be the quotas for July, August and September. Therefore, they will accept no more bookings for those months. On the other hand, Consul General Skinner has not viséd so many passports, and declares that the quotas are not filled. So he accused the British companies of trying to deflect immigrants from the United States to British colonies by announcing wrongly that the quotas are filled in advance. The British, in return, suspect him of trying...
...James V. Converse, 17-year-old daughter of Harry Hayes Morgan, consul-general to Brussels, and twin sister of Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, recent bride: " I am incorporating the Thelma Morgan Pictures, Inc., with $100,000 capital and will produce big, sane, and sound 'specials'. I will be my own star. Hitherto my chief experience has been in Junior League shows...