Word: consulates
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the weak-chinned Monarch had done no such thing; and within a few hours the Associated Press put on the wire a despatch headed Spanish Rumors Moderate. But the brief interval of drama enabled a supreme and significant anticlimax to be supplied by the Spanish Consul General in New York, placid Don Rafael Casares...
...Lady Grace Hay-Drummond-Hay, formerly Grace Marquerite Lethbridge, is the young widow of the late Sir Robert Hay-Drummond-Hay, C. M. G., His Majesty's Consul General in Syria, whose second wife she became in 1920 when he was 74 years of age. With Karl H. Von Wiegand, Lady Drummond-Hay will keep Hearst papers in constant touch by radio with the progress of the trip...
...book deals with a wedding breakfast in a removed alcove of the Cafe de Paris at Carezzio, on the Riviera. Gerald Cairns, a sophisticated playwright, who has just succeeded in obtaining a divorce from his first wife, has been married by the British Consul to an idealistic ingenue of an Irish girl named Helen, who has nursed him through a four years' illness. The bibulous Consul Cheyne, his wife Gabrialle, an unscrupulous French ex-harlot, Helen's Dutch friend, warm sensuous Jenny van Haaren who struggles--at intervals--against her infatuation for Gerald, and Hilary Bentinck, the worldly-wise though...
...Italian Consul Marquis di Muro was shot in the nose at the Nice consulate...
...consular agent who obtained the passport did so by the trick of impersonating a French police official. La Presse said that the agent slipped the passport out the train window to a colleague on the platform. La Presse said that the colleague on the platform was the U. S. Consul at Nice. Also, La Presse related an episode where Blackmer was supposed to have been invited ("lured") to a yacht for tea, where he would have been seized by his "enemies" (the U. S. Government) but for the alertness of his personal sleuth...