Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also mixed himself up in a scandal involving the purchase of some allegedly defective airplanes by the Roumanian Government. Every now and then he threatened suicide, although behaving admirably toward Princess Helen, who is said to be gradually going blind. A few weeks ago he failed to return to Bucharest after attending the funeral of the Queen Mother of England. This was not even mentioned in despatches because his frequent "disappearances" with Zyzis have become commonplace...
...desultory struggle with 25,000 Riffians which has lasted seven years, is now celebrating the capture of an insignificant village, the so-called capital of Riff-land. Belgians, Serbians and Rumanians, they pointed out, found it quite possible to do a deal of heavy fighting after Brussels, Belgrade and Bucharest had fallen to the Central Powers. Abd-el-Krim is still at large. And the Spanish attack of last week, crowned by the fall of his "capital" though it be, represents an actual advancement of the Spanish front by a scant four miles...
Belgrade 8 hr. Constantinople 4 hr. 30 min. Bucharest 2 hr. 30 min. Moscow 8 hr. 15 Min Leningrad 6 hr. 5 min. Copenhagen 4 hr. Paris...
...scene. One Dunlap, superintendent of the area, realized that nothing could be done except to localize the conflagration. The usual method of putting out a blazing oil gusher by steam pressure could not be used, because the nearest boilers were several miles away. Eventually, the authorities at Bucharest, the capital, were induced to send a battery of artillery to bombard the well, with the object of closing it up. Rumanian gunners bombarded it for half a day and all they succeeded in doing was to spread the fire...
...Bucharest, one Duben Danailoff, Bulgarian journalist, was called upon to address a polygot gathering. He began, in Rumanian, continued successively in French, Serbian, Greek, Turkish, German, Hebrew, Russian, Bulgarian...