Word: balkanizing
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Last week's fur story involved three of the most potent fur firms in the country: Eitingon Schild Fur Corp., whose $9,789,000 sales last year entitle it to the position of world's largest fur dealer; Balkan Importing Corp., New York office of the big Rumanian firm Pellimpex; and Alexander Bernstein Co., privately owned so that its figures are kept secret, but generally believed to be among New York's ten biggest. Some months ago Eitingon and Bernstein received shipments of furs worth $800,000 from Pellimpex, were aided by Balkan in selling them. Pouncing...
...Distinctly not for the squeamish." Lena, by a Prix Goncourt winner (Captain Conan), is a War romance on the order of A Farewell to Arms, plus the sinister violence of plot inseparable from Balkan settings. Readers who stubbornly refuse to humor Balkan settings may call it merely macabre sex melodrama skilfully made up to pass as an indictment...
...Regent Nicholas Horthy of Hungary was to return a similar visit paid by the Regent to Rome six months ago, but Kings seldom make state visits out of pure politeness. What caused this visit with its special train was the knowledge spreading through all the chancelleries of the Balkans that French and British rearmament was reaching a point where minor Balkan nations might soon turn to them against the encroachments of Fascism. In Venice five weeks ago Benito...
Looking back at 1912 it is hard to believe that Sarah Bernhardt's movie "Queen Elizabeth" much agitated a year so full of exciting events. People talked about the Titanic and the Bull Moose and the Balkan War if they were not reading the latest books of O. Henry, Edith Wharton, and Henry Adams. Just out of the nickleodeon era, the movies in America were far inferior to European productions, and attracted only a million persons a day. In 1912, however, the entertainment became an art under the patronage of the great Bernhardt, an event perhaps more portentious than others...
...duty was paid when it entered the U. S. after having been built at Kiel during blackest years of German depression. Sea Cloud ranks as one of the world's most opulent yachts, roughly matching in swank the Nahlin rented by Edward VIII for his Balkan cruise last summer. Coronation time it will lie off Southampton, taking the Davieses cruising to the Spithead naval review, and after the English festivities are over, according to Ambassador Davies this week, the Sea Cloud will cruise across the North Sea into the Baltic and tie up at Leningrad-the first right royally...