Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the train popped little Tsar Boris and a young woman sometimes called "the uncrowned Queen of Bulgaria." She is meek, sad-eyed, industrious, pious, charitable and much beloved. Each morning this admirable young woman, Princess Eudoxia, 29, assists her brother, the 33-year-old Tsar, with his correspondence, finds out what he desires to eat that day, sets the palace wenches bustling, and counts herself lucky if there remains time for a little tennis or a canter on horseback between the hours of household duty and official functions...
Bounding Jugoslavia on three sides are Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania; and on the fourth side lies the Adriatic, with Italy just across its silvery waves. Italian states-craft has always the object of seizing the Adriatic shore of Jugoslavia along which Italians already own 96% of all producer wealth: factories, steamship lines, etc. Therefore, if Il Duce could establish close rapprochement with all the countries bounding Jugoslavia, he would have laid the noose for hog-tying that realm. This, in a vulgar word, was what Il Duce and Count Bethlen did last week...
When they grasped hands in the Palazzo Chigi both knew that Italy has recently signed treaties of "friendship, arbitration and amity" with Austria, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece and Albania. The one country lacking to complete the ring of treaties encircling Jugoslavia was Hungary. Therefore, last week, when the Italo-Hungarian treaty* was signed, the Fascist press burst into such a eulogy of Il Duce as it has seldom before achieved. But what did Hungary get out of this pen scratching...
...Burgas, Bulgaria, 123 gypsies dug out of the ground a cow that had been buried because it had died of rabies. The gypsies ate the cow. Already 20 of them have died in convulsions, rabid...
...train between Philippopolis and Sofia, Bulgaria, peasants with bulgy eyes and strained expressions are no rarity. Last week on the train such a one suddenly leaped at other third-class passengers, ripped their flesh with his black teeth, jerked his arms a few times, and died-of rabies...