Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rumanians are an earthy people. Last week, as lovely Lisl Goldarbeiter stepped off the Vienna Express at Bucharest, she was met by an ogglesome throng of youths whose reaction soon became riotously negative. "Give us someone our weight!" roared voices from the crowd. "A bent pin for the Austrian Jewess! Give us Magda Dimitrescu ?Magda is our weight...
...want no underfed beauty queens here!" cried a roughster. "Let's make her eat some pork!" As the rowdies rushed, even saucy Magda Dimitrescu became frightened, seized Lisl Goldarbeiter by the wrist, dragged her through a baggage room and out by a back alley to sanctuary in the Bucharest Rumanian Orthodox Cathedral...
Last week, with the principal Rumanian harvests barely five weeks off, sealed bids were received at Bucharest from leading European locomotive works. Only one concern-a German syndicate-took seriously the Prime Minister's ultrashort time limit. They would supply him with 100 husky harvest-pullers-if Rumania would pay something like twice the normal price. All the other bidders seemed to assume that what Farm Reliever Maniu really wanted was a low price on 100 locomotives for delivery by Christmas or perhaps next Spring...
...sensation at Bucharest, last week, brought rash Publicist Filipescu to a filthy cell in the common jail. Awaiting trial for lèse-majesté he stoutly said: "I will not withdraw one word!" His defense, he added, would be that his article is not ''an attack on the Royal Family," as the Crown Prosecutor charges, but instead is a patriotic rebuke to the Rumanian statesman who allowed Her Majesty to go abroad and gallivant...
...public opinion could be gauged in Bucharest, last week, most Rumanians sympathized with Dowager Queen Marie, were indignant at the insinuation that U. S. citizens ever laughed at her, or are enjoying a last laugh...