Word: albanians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Owing to complications that have arisen between the cooperating directors of the American-Albanian School situated in Albania, B. H. Schneider '24 is returning to this country in an effort to relieve the situation, according to a cable received from him here to day. Schneider has been for the past few years associated with the Albanian project which has been supported to a small degree through the gifts of the Phillips Brooks House Association. C. B. Garey '29, chairman of the Missions Committee has been the director of the Associations activity in this particular field during the past year...
...stages in the past few years. Upon his return, it is quite possible that he will canvass the country in his search for new stock, with which he has been replenishing and enlarging the cattle culture of the decadent section of the country where he has been engaged with Albanian school...
...longer will an Albanian husband divorce his wife at pleasure in the Moslem manner simply by exclaiming three times, "I divorce thee-thou art no longer my wife!"* The minutest private acts of Albanians need no longer conform to the precepts of the True Prophet. Finally a salutary Swiss provision against carrying concealed weapons will completely alter, if it can be enforced, one of the most cherished customs of Albanians, who have always gone about with loaded pistols and sharp snicker-snees in their dirty blouses...
...been to encourage Greek Orthodox prelates among his subjects to proclaim at Tirana a new Holy Synod of Albania, with Archbishop Bessario Javani as its President. In Constantinople the Most Holy Patriarch Basil of the Greek Orthodox Church was incensed, last week, to the point of anathematizing the new Albanian Synod. Soon he unfrocked with awful and pious curses both Albanian Archbishop Javani and his ecclesiastical accomplice the Archimandrite Tjamzi of Berat...
Despatches from the Albanian capital of Tirana, last week, extravagantly rumored that over 300 minor and major blood feuds are now pending against well guarded King Ahmed Zogu. It was also rumored that the Sovereign had broken off the engagement which has bound him since childhood to wed Lela, luscious 23-year-old daughter of the great Albanian tribal chieftain Shevket Bey Verlatzi. Such a jilt, if actually perpetrated, can scarcely fail to engender another deadly blood feud...