Word: roumania
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...Marie of Roumania and Ji amie Walker in a new high hat with peaks on his lapels like unto those of Darien, Marie of Roumania and the President of the United States with a smile like unto that featured the day he caught a minnow in the Adirondacks, Marie of Roumania and Fifth Avenue, Marie of Roumania and Gopher Prairie, Marie of Roumania and the Grand Canon, Marie and the Pacific, Marie! Thus does the American press take to its heart the beloved of the Balkins and worry those who, with absurd faith in the direct desire of all Americans...
...locomotive and a Queen stood side by side at Resita, Roumania. The Queen was swathed in a blue duster, booted high, gauntleted to her elbows. Proud Marie of Roumania gazed with approval upon the first and as yet the only made-in-Roumania locomotive. Mounting into the cab, she encouraged King Ferdinand and Premier Averescu to follow her. Tutored by a grimy minion, she opened the throttle, piloted the locomotive three miles in four minutes...
...bitterest struggle in House and Senate was over the Italian agreement which provided for only about 25% repayment (of the present value). But the argument that Italy could pay no more carried the day. The Senate finally gave its consent (TIME, May 3) and agreements with Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Roumania, Esthonia and Latvia followed in quick succession (TIME...
...Bled, Jugoslavia, the foreign ministers of Czechoslovakia (Benes), Roumania (Mitilineu) and Jugoslavia (Nintchitch) assembled amid the awful diplomatic secrecy characteristic of all meetings of the Little Entente.* The announced agenda included discussion of: 1) The European situation-presumably reference to the growing ascendancy of Italy† as the protector of the Little Entente and the coincident ambiguous position of France in that role. Notorious are Mussolini's secret conferences with Jugoslav Premier Nintchitch, his furtherance of a Roumanian loan at Rome, his diplomatic feelers into the Eastern Balkans, notably signalized last week by the bestowal upon Greek Dictator-President...
Temptation. Silk stockings at $10 a pair, lingerie at $25 to $75 a suit-Roumania's prohibitive tariff on de luxe articles forces these prices-tempt smugglers to squirm under boundary fences, elude border guards. In Bucharest complaints were loud last week...