Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Russian Colonel Bezobrazov said unpleasant things about the Prince of Monaco. Baron Gunsberg, former director of the Opera at Monte Carlo, heard them, challenged the Russian to combat with swords. To the sand dunes of Calais they went and fought the matter out. A sword thrust in the arm forced the Colonel to acknowledge his error...
...friends, to undertake a cruise halfway round the world to study the ocean's bottom and the currents, to collect marine specimens for my museum on Long Island. It was recalled that the last yachtsman to undertake a serious oceanographic research was the late Prince Albert of Monaco, whose extensive labors were rewarded with the Agassiz gold medal of the National Academy of Science...
...soft haze of romance that hangs over Monte Carlo, periodically-shattered by the moneyed persistence of stray American millionaires, may presently be brushed aside with the bourgeoise tricolor of France. This step is not prophesied for tomorrow, of course, but if Monaco follows the lead of several other microscopic principalities which have lately given up their independence, it will not be many years until the famous casino is nothing more than a grand old memory, and until the chants of the crouplers are embalmed in the of the cropiers are embalmed in the folk lore of the countryside...
...highest bidder; and now comes the news that the good citizens of Liechtenstein, upon the death of Prince Yohann, which is hourly expected, will give up their autonomy and amalgamate with Switzerland. Somehow the course of empire must be stayed. Whatever other rulers do the house of Monaco must realize that, although personally it may care nothing for freedom, it has a magnificent foreign reputation which must at all costs be preserved...
Liechtenstein, except for the Principality of Monaco (8 square miles), and the Republic of San Marino (38 square miles.), is the smallest independent country in Europe, having an area of 65 square miles. The capital is Vaduz, where, it is said, cows graze in the main streets. Until 1868 the Principality maintained an army of 91, but in that year the army was abolished. The population, mostly of German extraction and Catholic in religion, is about 11,000. The budget in 1922 was balanced at 384,500 Swiss francs ($66,441), and there is no public debt. The language...