Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bulgaria's gabby little capital of Sofia everybody had known for a week that something was about to happen. With Italy at war, it had become of the first significance that Bulgaria's Queen loanna is the daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele and that her husband, popular little Tsar Boris III, is inclined to be pro-Italian. A year and a half ago a Bulgarian Army clique which is strongly pro-Yugoslav and pro-French staged a coup d'état and made Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff Premier (TIME...
Moving fast. Premier-Botanist Tosheff had 30 Army officers. 30 politicians jailed on charges of high treason. Martial law was declared, Sofia's streets were cleared at rifle point after a 10 p. m. curfew, and the Cabinet stayed on in session getting telephone reports from police headquarters on new arrests until the total had reached 255, including former Premier Colonel Gueorguieff and a delegation of returned Bulgarian exiles from Yugoslavia...
...Astrid Sofia Louisa Thyra her name was, and she was 29. Her father, the Duke of Yastergotland, is brother of King Gustaf of Sweden; her mother is sister to Christian of Denmark and Haakon of Norway. One great aunt was Alexandra of Britain, another Dagmar, Tsarina of Russia. But no Queen ever lived more simply. All Brussels had seen Astrid time & time again wheeling her own baby carriage along the boulevards on a Sunday morning. Young Leopold as Crown Prince had gone several times to Stockholm to propose to her, traveling in a third-class coach to keep his incognito...
Incredibly, Robert College survived and flourished. It found rich U. S. patrons, notably the late Cleveland H. Dodge. Other U. S. educational ventures sprang up in the Near East-Istanbul Woman's College, International College at Izamir, American University of Beirut, American College of Sofia, Athens College. Slowly Near Easterners overcame their fixed idea that all foreign ventures in their lands were for purposes of political or commercial advantage. In time the U. S. colleges, independent but banded together since 1919 in the Near East College Association, were acclaimed as brilliant beacons in the Near East march toward Western...
...rocky isle of Saint Anastasia in the Black Sea is Bulgaria's Elba. One dawn last week in Sofia, before the hordes of milch goats were out on the streets, police burst into the homes of two Bulgar would-be Napoleons, dragged them from their beds, gave them each a few minutes to dress, bundled them off to Saint Anastasia...