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When he was born in 100 B.C., his uncle-by-marriage Marius was in his sixth consulship, a personal reign as unprecedented in Roman history as F.D.R.'s four terms were in U.S. history. The two major parties, the Populars and the Optimates, and factions within them, had already begun a bloody jockeying for power that sometimes clogged Roman sewers with corpses...
...psychological document. In these thousands of hours of purloined time, Professor Wright was not himself-or was more himself than Professor Wright was. He was a young Harvard graduate named John Lang, and the year was 1907, and a rich uncle had secured him the first U.S. consulship in Islandia...
...wangled him a consulship in Brazil, and followed him there with 59 pieces of luggage. Her own job, while Richard was off prospecting for non-existent gold or investigating a rumored 160-ft. sea serpent, was "fending off Foreign Office inquiries as to his whereabouts...
Next post she wangled him-"on Richard's solemn oath that he would act with 'unusual' prudence"-was the consulship at Damascus . . . "the dream of my childhood ... I am to live amongst the Bedawin Arab chiefs; I shall smell the desert air; I shall have tents, horses, weapons, and be free. . . ." They arrived with a museum load of African, South American and Indian bric-a-brac and five dogs-to which they soon added twelve horses, three goats, a camel, a snow-white donkey, a pet lamb and a baby panther (which the horrified peasants poisoned...
...year 1864 one Henry Bergh, son of a wealthy New York shipbuilder, returned to the U. S. from a consulship in St. Petersburg thoroughly disgusted with the way Russians abused animals, thoroughly determined that there should be no such abuse in the U. S. Taking his inspiration from "Humanity" Martin, he lined up John Jacob Astor, Peter Cooper, other prominent New Yorkers, in 1866 founded in New York the first A. S. P. C. A. From the New York Legislature he secured a charter granting its officers the power of arrest and the privilege of licensing dogs, in return...