Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prince and she was the favorite lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth of Rumania, better known by her pen name, "Carmen Silva." Queen Elizabeth, sympathizing with the lovers, permitted them to be constantly together. When news of this came to strict, arbitrary King Carol of Rumania, he broke off the affair by the ruthless step of banishing Mile. Vacarescu from Rumania, and later sending Queen Elizabeth into enforced residence in Germany. Last week Helene Vacarescu, overcome by grief at the death of Ferdinand I, left Paris to spend a period of mourning at Vichy, smart...
...Curtea de Arges, the Dowager Queen Marie broke down completely, and sobbed aloud, swooned. She recovered at last, sufficiently to lay upon the grave a wreath of lilies, which she had picked herself, and a large pillow of white roses sent from Paris by Prince Carol. Near her there stood during the ceremony her son-in-law, King Alexander of Jugoslavia, her brother-in-law, Prince Hohenzollern-Sigmarigen, and the deposed King George II of Greece. Airplanes dropped flowers, and the earth trembled slightly at a long farewell salute of 101 guns...
...days later Brigadier General Feland cabled to Washington: "I recommend that the distinguished service medal be awarded Major Ross E. Rowell. ... At Ocotal he led the planes to the attack with the highest tactical skill and distinguished courage. He broke the masses of the enemy, destroyed the greater part of them and drove the remainder from the field...
...Battice had to be freed from his irons to keep life aboard the Kingsway. Mate Mortimer broke down and died. They buried him at Barbados...
Mary McCormic, soprano, one-time protegee of Mary Garden, and William Martin, tenor, onetime (1921) mainstay of the Harvard Glee Club, broke a precedent last week in Paris. They were the first natives of the U. S. ever to appear in leading roles at the National Opera. They sang well the roles of Marguerite and Faust, respectively, in Charles Francois Gounod's mighty Faust...