Word: severin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Jones clique learned he wanted to be a prize fighter they formed a syndicate to back him: 22 of them, including Jones, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Actor Frank Crumit, Socialite Tommy Tailer, Stockbroker Clifford Roberts, L. B. Maytag (washing machines), Bartlett Arkell (BeechNut Co.), Aired Severin Bourne (Singer sewing machines) and many another gold-spooned golfer. To manage their waif, they got Chick Wergeles, a Broadway press agent...
Author Paul discovered his beloved street one soft summer night in 1923, when it was still possible "to do things without premeditation." After dropping into "the most perfect small Gothic church in France, St. Severin," he picked up a trollop named Suzanne. She steered him into the rue de la Huchette...
Outside the capital, civil war came next. At Craiova and Turnu-Severin, Army and Iron Guard battalions battled in the streets in open warfare. At Brasov the Iron Guard captured the telephone exchange and post office, was routed in bloody counter-attacks by the Army. From Bulgaria came word of artillery fire in the Rumanian Danube port of Giurgiu...
...settle the claims of both Hungary and Bulgaria before Sept. 1. King Carol began to wriggle and stall. Last month, with Bulgaria's claim to Dobruja agreed to but still unfulfilled, Hungary's Premier Count Paul Teleki and Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky sent delegates to Turnu Severin in Rumania to present their claim to Transylvania. The delegates were told that Rumania would not consider ceding more than one-fifth of Transylvania. The delegates went home to Budapest and Count Csaky had a talk with the German and Italian Ministers, then went off to Vienna, taking Count Teleki...