Word: legatione
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Cautiously at Prague the Spanish Legation admitted that Count Zamoyski (husband of His Majesty's cousin the Infanta Isabella) has "invited" the Spanish Royal Family to visit his Alpine castle.
''But I have no information," said the flustered legation spokesman, "no knowledge whatever about how the invitation was worded!"
At a ball in the U. S. Legation at Belgrade, H. R. H. Princess Olga, cousin of Dictator King Alexander, suddenly discovered that her gold-mesh, diamond-studded handbag had disappeared. . . .
Next day the Chief of Police said: "I feel that Belgrade's reputation for honesty has been sustained. Within a few hours after her loss I had the pleasure of restoring to Princess Chichibu her jeweled collar. A local Belgrade photographer found it in the gutter and at once...
The State and Navy Departments of the U. S. frown on the practice of tauromachy, or the art of bullfighting, by U. S. official representatives. But when Major Peter C. Geyer Jr., U. S. M. C., naval attache to the Legation at Tegucigalpa killed a bull in a bull ring...