Word: montenegro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peasants brought up the procession's rear in such native costumes as few countries besides Jugoslavia can produce. Her peasants of Turkish blood still wear the fez now banned in Turkey. With them strode Bosnians in scarlet dress and Herzegovinian mountaineers carrying their rifles upside down in mourning. Montenegro sent her Jugoslavian Cossacks...
...Stroheim Merry Widow, like the original operetta, concerned a Prince Danilo. The real Prince Danilo of Montenegro sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for libel, collected $4,000 in a Paris court. Well aware that 63-year-old Prince Danilo, living modestly near Nice, must have pricked up his ears when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid Princess Youssoupov $250,000 & costs for libelously dipping into the history of Russia and Rasputin (TIME, March 12; Aug. 20), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer took no chances with this new version of The Merry Widow. In addition to demoting the Prince to a Captain, they were careful...
Then in 1918 came his triumph. He saw his little Serbia swell to five times its original size, gobble Montenegro where he was born and slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria and become the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later Jugoslavia. In 1921 old King Peter died and Alexander was King at last. Very quickly Croats and Slovenes learned who were their masters...
...great gallantry and utmost disregard of personal danger" Major Richardson leaped forward, rallied the faltering company, led it through bursting shell to victory. Major Richardson received the Distinguished Service Cross, the French Legion of Honor, the Victory Medal and three clasps, the Croix de Guerre with two palms, the Montenegro Medal of Bravery, the Solidaridad of Panama. That helped to make up for the June afternoon on Trophy Point in 1904 when he, too, marched up to receive his class's last diploma...
...haemophile, was in constant danger of bleeding to death. Honest doctors did all they could for him. Finally the distracted Empress turned to spiritualists, mediums and quacks. She was abetted in this by the Montenegran Princesses, Militza and Anastasia. superstitious daughters of the pot-bellied King Nicholas of Montenegro and sisters of Queen Elena of Italy. The Montenegran Princesses introduced into the palace a series of strange conjurers including the famed Philippe Nizier-Vachot, a onetime butcher's assistant from Lyons who claimed to be the reincarnation of the Prophet Elijah. Elijah fell from favor, died and his successors...