Word: balkanize
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...black pinafores. The younger howled lustily and unashamed. They were going to the hospital. It was useless for patient teachers to explain that they were merely going to the hospital to have their eyes examined in accordance with the Government's physical culture program. To children of all Balkan countries, "hospital" is a most terrible word. "Hospital" is where you die, where they torture children, cut off their ears, put out their eyes...
...LOVE PARADE (Maurice Chevalier) -French wit on the backstairs of one of those Balkan palaces...
...most zestful reading matter coming into the State Department by official channels. Crippled in one leg, Minister Hart was appointed in 1925 by President Coolidge, who chose him from the corps of Washington correspondents where he represented Portland and Spokane papers. His reports of crudities in the Balkan capital kept his superiors in a state of giggly excitement, led to the construction of a new legation there. He, of all its men, could furnish the ever-curious State Department with a vivid description of conditions in Southern Russia...
...problems of Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria v. the Little Entente (i.e., Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania) as the "Oriental Issues"-a complete misnomer since not one of these countries is "oriental" and Bulgaria and in some districts Jugoslavia are the only ones where the people freely admit that they are "Balkan." (Call a Hungarian "You Balkan!" and his hackles will infallibly rise...
...chancellories of Europe are scheming to keep away from each other. Even out here the threat of war is heavy in the air. When Maynard comes home he is sent off to Ireland, which seems on the verge of rebellion; but when a shot is fired in a little Balkan town the journalists hurry home; war has broken...