Word: montenegrins
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...appearances fun was had. Laval is the son of a storekeeper, and Mussolini is the son of a blacksmith, but for that matter Elena is the daughter of a Montenegrin mountain chieftain who made himself King. One of Her Majesty's ladies-in-waiting has written of Her Majesty's father thus: "He preferred a thousand times his native dress with knives stuck into the broad belt to any other kind, and preferred cutting with these same knives a cold fowl or a piece of mountain mutton as it hung in the family larder to sitting down...
...visited Galichnik, a little mountain "village of grass widows," whose men, famed stonecutters and masons, go out to work all over the world, come home for a month in the summer, if they are not too far away. In Montenegro Adamic heard a story which he says illustrates the Montenegrin's two great virtues: A man about to be shot was asked if he had ever been in a worse fix. Yes, he answered, once-"when a man came to see me from afar and I was so poor that I had nothing in the house to offer...
...love with his picture, joined him first as mistress, then as wife. She was obliged, for lack of money, to use precious but musty draperies for clothes. she left for a "vacation," and her husband promptly took an ad interim companion. There followed divorce, his marriage to a Montenegrin dancer, Olga Milanoff, for a span his mistress, a second burning of his hill house, a third building thereof. Who's Who in America this year dropped him from its roster of reputable notables...
...Vuco Perovich, Montenegrin by birth, barber in Rochester, N. Y., by trade, who has constantly maintained that he would rather hang than spend his life in prison, was last week pardoned by President Coolidge for a murder for which he was convicted in Alaska in 1905. Mr. Perovich attracted attention in 1909 by protesting that his constitutional rights had been violated when President Taft commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. In 1925 a Kansas district court upheld Mr. Perovich's protest, so he was released under a habeas corpus writ and became an active barber. But, last June...
...Which annexed Montenegro (1918) after the Montenegrin National Assembly had deposed the Petrovic dynasty...