Word: montenegro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adamics 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...
George Moses is no stranger to editorial rooms. He went to the Concord Evening Monitor after he was graduated from Dartmouth in 1890. Before he was sent as U. S. Minister to Greece & Montenegro in 1909, he was publisher. His defeat for re-election to the Senate (where he served 14 years on the Foreign Relations Committee), his 64 hard-lived years, have not dulled George Moses' tongue...
...stage show the Metropolitan has gone Ziegfeld with a vengeance. There are of course the Boswell sisters, and Conchita Montenegro, both alluring in their own particular ways, two or three other good acts, and a grand tableau of thirty glorified girls in half-piece bathing suits gamboling in a Louis XIV fountain while colored lights play and the orchestra hits a feverish crescendo. What more do you want for sixty cents...
...boned Queen Elena was the daughter of lusty, barrel-shaped Nicholas I, peasant King of Montenegro. Roman gossips have always insisted that the marriage was arranged to rejuvenate the inbred House of Savoy. Peasant Queen Elena's appreciation of art is elementary. Scholars of the American Academy in Rome still remember the occasion two years ago when she paused uncertainly before a stylized picture of a nude Europa balanced on the back of a swimming bull and demanded in her booming voice, "Why is de cow sticking out de tongue?" With her hands folded over her stomach, she moved...
Cetinje, the ancient capital of Montenegro, Podgovica and Danilograd on the route of an amazing motor route into Albanija...