Word: caroling
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...most disastrous times, many people sat in cafes, talked of other things. Rumanians were gradually learning many more unpleasant things than they already knew about their ex-King Carol, who abdicated last September (TIME, Sept. 16) with redheaded Magda Lupescu...
According to the stories told, before his abdication Carol had built a royal hunting lodge costing 150,000,000 lei ($780,000), and stables costing 400,000,000 lei ($2,080,000). In these fantastic barns the walls were lined with mirrors, floors were made of costly faience, each groom had a three-room, electrically heated apartment, the horses themselves stood or lay on expensive mattresses. For her part, Mme. Lupescu had whimsically ordered many buildings in Bucharest torn down simply because she disliked their looks. Before he left Bucharest for a trip to Rome last week Rumania...
...radio the Met's Manager Edward Johnson introduced him as a singer of promise, let him carol Malotte's lusty Song of the Open Road...
...Terribly bored" by his detainment at a Seville hotel, Rumania's ex-King Carol II ordered up a thousand sheets of foolscap, commenced to pencil his memoirs...
Under house arrest in a Seville hotel, ex-King Carol and his titian paramour Magda Lupescu earnestly sought the "protection" of President Roosevelt to keep the Gestapo from sending "The Lupe" and shady-dealing palace favorite Ernest Udarianu back to the Iron Guard. She is accused of having been directly responsible for the assassination of its Leader and No. 1 Rumanian Fascist, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, he of having looted the Treasury for his royal master. Powerless and apparently in the hands of the Gestapo, Carol last week had time to contemplate that Europe was fast becoming too small...