Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other motors followed them. They contained pressmen whose blase hearts were a-thumping. Was Carol, after dwelling sub rosa in Milan with Mme. Lupescu for nearly two months (TIME, Jan. 18 et seq.), about to return to Bucharest? Was he going to resume his abdicated rank? Would Mme. Lupescu attempt to go with him, or would she merely...
Working swiftly and in the dead of night, friends of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania (TIME, Jan. 11, 18) pasted up enormous scarlet caricatures upon the buildings of Bucharest, the capital. Had Queen Marie (Carol's mother) ridden abroad in the early dawn, she would have beheld a coarse likeness of her alleged "court favorite," Prince Babu Stirbey, leering at her everywhere above the caption, "This...
This time Prince Babu Stirbey allegedly telephoned the Chief of Police of Bucharest and demanded the arrest of the Carolist Deputy, Gregoire Filipescu, who had admitted publicly that he was the chief of the poster-pasters. Strangely enough, Prince Babu Stirbey's demand was not only flatly denied but he was allegedly advised to depart at once from Bucharest, advice which he immediately heeded, according to despatches...
Late in the week a despatch from Bucharest reported: "It is now openly rumored that King Ferdinand countermanded the order of Prince Babu Stirbey for the arrest of Deputy Filipescu. . . . The abdication of Crown Prince Carol is now widely interpreted as a protest against Prince Babu Stirbey's having compromised his mother and made his father appear ridiculous...
...near Ascot. He and his dissolute brother, Prince Nicholas, celebrated his renunciation by staging a wild party at Mitchell's, atop Montmartre, Paris (see CELEBRITIES DINE). Later he and the mysterious lady left Vienna to seek a quiet exile in Sweden; and he is expected to arrive shortly at Bucharest, in order to retract his rash step, which he now bitterly regrets...