Word: jugoslavia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Naming princes is a ticklish task. On account of the Irish it was necessary to include "Patrick" among the seven given names of Edward of Wales. On account of the Slovenes plump Queen Marie of Jugoslavia was obliged, last week, to select a Slovene appellation as the principal name of her lately born third son (TIME, July...
...make the day of christening doubly joyful King Alexander decreed the pardon of several prominent Slovenes arrested since His Majesty proclaimed himself Dictator of Jugoslavia (TIME, Jan. 14). There was only one jarring note, significant, typically Balkan...
...famed Ferenc Molnar, fat, ironic playwright. Once a noted beauty, the Baroness Molnar grew eccentric after her husband's death in 1900, cut her hair short, adopted peasant garb and, during the War, equipped and mannishly managed a large field hospital. Although often styled "richest woman in Jugoslavia," she recently dispensed with nearly all her servants, then filled the sumptuous salons of her chateau at Starilec with innumerable dogs and birds...
...foot in the morning, peasant clad, without seeing to her dogs and birds as she usually did. The few old servitors at Starilec. humble, discreet, waited several days, then reported their mistress' disappearance. Out rushed eager search parties to comb crag and dale for "the richest woman in Jugoslavia." There was bound to be pots of money in it for the man who found her, perhaps wounded by some wild animal in the rocky woods...
Born. To King Alexander & Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, a son (third), provisionally named Paul by the Archbishop of Ljubljana; at Castle Bled, Slovenia...