Word: jugoslavia
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Princes Andreja and Tomislav of Jugoslavia were indulging in a knockdown & drag-out fight in the Royal Palace at Belgrade last week when His Majesty Peter II poked his head into the Royal nursery...
Widowed Queen Marie of Jugoslavia was painfully ill of shock, gallstones, and infected teeth. Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, her mother to whom she is "Mignon," was recuperating from an attack of influenza brought on by the bitter weather during King Alexander's funeral. Both sick women worried mightily about Dowager Queen Marie's youngest daughter, the Archduchess Ileana, expecting another baby and running a dangerous fever in Vienna...
Mabel Grouitch is today the best known hostess in Jugoslavia. During the Balkan wars she toured the U. S. drumming up funds for the Serbian Red Cross. She maintained a military hospital in Belgrade, importing British nurses to staff it. During the World War she toured the U. S. again, raised $100,000 for Serbian relief. The Grouitches were intimate friends of assassinated King Alexander and of Queen Marie. Often they played bridge at the palace. When Their Majesties traveled abroad they often parked the present King Peter II and his brothers with the Grouitches. instead of leaving them...
...Jugoslavia's problems," said gracious Mabel Grouitch last week "are similar to those which confronted the United States after the Civil...
...Rasnik, Jugoslavia, peasants told Angjelija Nukitch she was the prettiest girl in all the world. Then spiteful villagers came back from Zagreb with news that they had seen girls who made Angjelija look homely by comparison. Pretty Angjelija wrote a note saying that she did not want to live in a world that held prettier girls, hanged herself...