Word: albanians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Suddenly informed last week that they are going to have a half-American Queen, the Albanian people remained comparatively calm. None of the objections raised by Britons when they were afraid they might get a full American were heard in Tirana. Mother and father of Albania's future Queen are the onetime Gladys Virginia Stewart of Manhattan and Count...
...means "Bird" in Albanian and King Zog I met his fiancée in his brightest gold-lace plumage. Apart from the facts that many a prominent Albanian family has sworn a blood feud against King Zog, that he has almost ruined his throat by oversmoking, until at one time he could talk only in guttural wheezes, His Majesty is a highly eligible bachelor...
...week members of the Albanian congress jogged into Tirana on asses or jumped off clattering busses, as they arrived to hear King Zog, 42, formally announce that he will soon take Geraldine, 22, as his Queen. She once won a beauty contest, recently has worked in the Hungarian National Museum, selling postcards, but in Albanian eyes her chief attraction is that her grandfather was once Court Chamberlain to Kaiser Franz Josef for whose hoary whiskers and mighty Habsburg name they had if little love, at least an ominous respect...
...told him about her past, an incredible autobiography revolving around massacres, torture, rape, underground terrorist activity. During the last big French attack, Lena discharged De Queslain as cured, left him to make his way with the retreating Bulgarians. When they next met, Lena had joined a gang of Albanian pillagers about to attack the village, explaining that she had done so in order to catch Serbian spies. Her main concern at the moment, however, was to manage his escape. But De Queslain, who still thought she was trying to put something over on him, argued so long that the Albanians...
Anyway, the man from Brooklyn knew the Priest who did speak Greek but told me he learned it at school and he was the only one in Piana dia Greci who knew it. Everyone else was a descendant of the first colony of Albanian Greeks who came there during the war in 1488 and spoke Italian or a bastard Greek, which no Athenian could understand today. Then he gave me goat's milk and blessed me; asked me to take his picture, and so I did. Thus endeth my great trip adventure of exploration, a sad failure. But tomorrow...