Word: balkanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make the day of christening doubly joyful King Alexander decreed the pardon of several prominent Slovenes arrested since His Majesty proclaimed himself Dictator of Jugoslavia (TIME, Jan. 14). There was only one jarring note, significant, typically Balkan...
...main staple of the current season. The tunes are like hundreds of other tunes you've heard, and the fantastic lives, childish problems, and unreal reactions of the characters belong to a type familiar to cinema-seers since 1910. A girl from one of those Graustarkian Balkan kingdoms changes the destinies of the boys from the jazz orchestra who find her penniless in a U. S. city. Only good shots: the orchestral quartet putting...
...That attitude paid well," chuckled Dr. Radoslavoff last week. "When the victorious Balkan States wanted to divide Bulgaria among themselves at the Neuilly Peace Conference it was the United States who protested and saved Bulgaria...
...cave, views of the globe. North America, the Manhattan skyline, a skyscraper, then a view of one of the sky-scraper's windows, into it, across the room, to a map, where, with the aid of a pointer outlining Kingdom of Clavery and Republic of Agravia, two fictitious Balkan states, the story begins. It seems there is a certain precious metal called calcomite. The English control all the calcomite mines except those in Agravia. And the Agravians, out of a tender regard for the British, refuse to sell theirs to anyone, even to the Americans. In their New York...
...Szechenyi, France's Paul Claudel. Less smart, but kept quite busy, are Austria's Prochnik, Italy's de Martino, Japan's Debuchi,* Mexico's Telles, Spain's Padilla y Bell. After them, courted by hostesses on their way up or down, come the Balkan and Latin-American diplomats...