Word: caroling
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...Exalted absentees: homespun Governor General Donal Buckley of the Irish Free State who sent his rugged regrets; and Rumania's buck-toothed Hohenzollern, the bride's "Uncle Carol" who fumed in Bucharest because he was not invited, sent no wedding present...
...further snub to Scapegrace Carol II, George V. who detests "that bounder," caused to be invited Carol's cast-off wife, Her Majesty Helen of Greece and Rumania who resides in England...
...Brasov, where that Jewish Juno, large, muscular, red-haired Mme Magda Lupescu, often dallies with King Carol II, guards caught a fully-armed spy roaming the Royal Palace last week. Spy Ludwig Andrei had in his breast pockets plans of the palace, its secret entrances and those sliding panels which have enabled Rumanian Royalty to pass with such discretion from one bedchamber to another. Next day police, gendarmes and detectives raided scores of hotels, restaurants and clubs, stopped railway trains to search passengers to the skin. By nightfall Spy Andrei had been joined in jail by over 5,000 suspects...
...morrow toothy, nervous King Carol rode out to open Parliament with bland, lumpish little Crown Prince Mihai at his side. From the Throne, His Majesty announced that the Rumanian Army-already larger than the U. S. Army-must be further enlarged and equipped with even better Krupp guns "because of the prevailing international insecurity." That chore done, the state carriage clop-clopped back toward the palace. Suddenly a man darted from the crowd, thrust something into the laps of the King and Crown Prince. As at Marseille when King Alexander of Yugoslavia was assassinated (TIME, Oct. 15), the usual ornate...
...kind of sorrow is new to me," said the mother of Rumania's scapegrace Carol. "No sad experience is unknown to me, because life for a Queen can be just as hard as it is for anyone else...