Word: tangier
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...post of agent to Tangier...
...Tetuan, and might today have been a muezzin--truly a romantic figure, but hardly likely to perplex the Spanish government. At present, he is an expert purveyor of hot water: his daily production floods the Spanish market with trouble. As long as Raisuli is doing the acrobatic in Tangier, that sector of the international map will pull the front pages. Meanwhile, he is an answer to those sceptics who doubt the existence of "real, live, kidnapping sheiks...
...seven Capitals we own our Embassies: London, Paris, Constantinople, Havana, Mexico City, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro. In eight capitals, we now own our Legations* ? Prague, Christiania, Tangier, Bangkok (Siam), Peking, Panama, San Jose (Costa Rica), San Salvador. We own our Consulates at Shanghai, Amoy (Southern China), Seoul (Korea), Tahiti...
Both Spanish public and Moors have long since become used to such state ments from a long succession of Spanish Governments. The Moorish rebels showed their contempt for such drivel by cutting Spanish communications between Tetuan, capital of Spanish Morocco, and Tangier, international zone lying at the extreme northwest corner of Morocco and opposite the great rock of Gilbraltar. This was by far the most decisive victory for the rebels in this year's fighting* and a serious setback to the Spaniards...
...since the reign of King Charles II?the memory of a shipwreck that occurred more than ten years before the story begins?a rash debt undischarged?the narration of the tragic love story of another Cynthia Fanning and young Pedro da Gama that was acted two centuries previous in Tangier: out of these materials Grant Overton has written "a tale of the miracle we call love and of the commonplace we call fate." A most unusually good romance, it nevertheless has its defects: a stiff burden of complications, a style that is sometimes as much Mr. Hergesheimer...