Word: albanian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Albanian hillside overlooking the sea, the post-War town of Kravnik is booming along at a great rate. In fact, it is a rare combination of modernist architecture, cosmopolitan inhabitants and the speed-up system. Beautiful to look at, Kravnik is a microcosmic capitalistic nightmare, presided over oy half-a-dozen commercial despots. Hamid, who has a perfectly good though rapidly fattening wife at home, lures stenographers into his sanctum and then makes a certain proposal. The Savoff brothers are never so happy as when they can devise some such scheme as dividing the 12-hour working day into...
Beauteous Lisa is a humble stenographer in Hamid's office. She hates Kravnik. Her brother Primo, an ambitious young architect (temporarily unemployed), likes Kravnik. On the floor below them lives a mysterious Albanian. He hates Kravnik. And he has a really first-hand reason: as a baby he lived in the forest that was cut down in order that Kravnik might be. The Albanian is still just an untamed peasant at heart, but he has had a wonderful chemical training. In fact, he has discovered a new high explosive with which he plans to blow up Kravnik building...
...afternoons a week at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. An endless round of tutors drilled him in English, French, Arabic, history, geography, mathematics, chemistry, physics, gymnastics, boxing, fencing and tennis. In that time his face had lengthened and hardened out of the sly sophistication of a Prince of Albanian-Egyptian blood. His father's only son, he could not get to Fuad's funeral because Moslem law requires burial of the dead within 24 hours...
...want to succeed his father. Thereupon the British Army of Occupation skipped to the youngest of Ismail's twelve children, chose Fuad to be sultan and in 1922 made him King of Egypt, Sovereign of Nubia, the Sudan, Kordofan and Darfur. Thus the great-great-grandson of an Albanian tobacco peddler, the great Mohammed Ali, became the first sovereign in Egypt since Cleopatra died of an asp bite...
...learning under the Roman Empire. Already visible are gracious courtyards, marble fountains and swimming pools, a stone amphitheatre for gladiatorial contests seating 10,000, vivid blue, red, green and orange mosaics, the villa of a Roman governor. In the streets, laid bare by gangs of Yugoslav and Albanian peasants, are narrow ruts where, Dr. Vlada Petovich of the National Museum believes, the chariots of Alexander the Great and Philip of Macedon passed. In the cellar of a synagogue is a curious cistern at the bottom of which the diggers found seven gold pieces?cast there, in Dr. Petovich's opinion...