Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and therefore closely related to the British reigning house (now called Windsor), was brought up a Protestant. Her husband, King Ferdinand, is a Catholic. Yet their five living children were reared in the Greek Orthodox faith. Last week, according to Bucharest despatches, she joined the church of her offspring...
Since the first of the year, correspondents at Bucharest have amused themselves by announcing the fall of the Bratiano cabinet every other week while denying this eventuality between times. The truth of the matter has been that Premier Jon Bratiano's Liberal party has indeed been losing ground, as was indicated recently at the minor municipal elections; and with the parliamentary elections now immediately in the offing, it was thought that he would prefer to step down from power a little in advance of the coming storm. The correspondents seized upon every rumor that he had resigned and cabled...
...Champs-Elysees, Paris. His impressive uniform proclaimed him a huissier, a process-server. With dignity he delivered to one of the hotel clerks a paper serving notice upon the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania that his first (morganatic) wife, Zizi Lambrino, had arrived at Paris from Bucharest and started suit to recover 10 million fanes from him, avowedly on the grounds that she is still his wife. Zizi. It. was recalled that the Roumanian Government has sufficiently indicated its conception of the validity of her marriage (1918) to Carol, by declaring it annulled (1919) and granting her a modest...
...letter is dated at Bucharest, Aug. 1, 1919. On Jan. 8, 1920, the child in question, "Mircea," was born. At Paris last week Mircea was patted on the head by many a pressman, kissed by many a presswoman...
...night they had patched up a new rumor that Carol is in Paris for an "important secret conference which is to prepare the way for his return to Bucharest...