Word: balkanize
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...days Premier Tatarescu, his resignation not yet accepted by irresolute King Carol, strutted bravely at Bucharest, an amazing Balkan bantam who had tut-tutted Der Führer and Il Duce. Next came crash!-and CRASH!-the replies of Berlin and Rome. The angry Dictators in almost identical telegrams slapped King Carol in the face by telling the Royal Rumanian Government officially that the envoys of Germany and Italy had attended in their private capacity "the funeral of the two heroes" and that no ground for asking their recall existed. Friends of Mme Lupescu, "Smartest Woman in the Balkans," were...
...Aras'. He had converted a bad-blooded neighbor into an avowed friend. But even now he was not ready to go, home. Instead, he entrained for Belgrade to hatch plans with Yugoslavia's Premier Dr. Milan Stoyadinovich for the coming conference at Athens of the Balkan Entente (Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Rumania...
...They unmasked to some hitherto naive editors the whole Vienna school of whipped-cream journalism, and (which will prove much more expensive) they unmasked it to the world public as well. Hereafter money is going to be spent getting much nearer to the facts of life in each royal Balkan sty and snuggery...
Forbidden Melody (book & lyrics by Otto Harbach; music by Sigmund Romberg; Kirkland & Grisman, producers) is a spavined specimen of that old theatrical wheelhorse, the operetta. Laid in a complicated Balkan kingdom, it tries to be sentimental, succeeds only in being arch. It contains a surprise, Comedienne Ruth Weston singing. Carl Brisson, a large, broad-faced Dane who was once a pugilist, accomplishes both song and dance, has such fidgety legs that he seems to be dancing even when he is not supposed to. Brightest spots are the singing of such amiable Romberg tunes as "No Use Pretending" and "Blame...
DRUMS IN THE BALKAN NIGHT-John I. B. McCulloch-Putnam ($3). A seasoned U. S. honeymooner in the Balkans since 1934 amateur Journalist McCulloch recalls his experiences in a chatty omnibus devoted to his sightseeing, anecdotes of political figures, his interviews with King Boris, the late Venizelos, Dowager Queen Marie...