Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sofia, small, picturesque capital of Bulgaria, sprang suddenly into color last week. Bulgaria's white-green-red flag fluttered from a thousand windows. In balconies were flowers. From public buildings streamed bunting. In the churches were services; in the streets, a parade. All the shops were closed...
...reason for color and festivity was twofold. First, Little Tsar Boris was celebrating his tenth year as ruler of Bulgaria. Second, Bulgaria itself had just slipped out of its 'teens as a monarchy, was observing its twentieth kingly year...
Keen, well informed observers of Bulgaria deemed that Tsar Boris, able, potent, had spoken the exact truth. Bulgarian security is good and the country sound, despite frequent cabinet upsets, which always seem to end in a resumption of power by Prime Minister Andrei Liapchev...
Tsar Boris of Bulgaria perhaps did not hear, at Sofia, last week, that his father, the abdicated Tsar Ferdinand, was seen in Vienna to chase a black cat with oaths out of his hotel bedroom. Other guests testified that Ferdinand, barefoot, clad in nightshirt, pursued cat down corridor...
Beloved Princess Eudoxia of Bulgaria, sister and chatelaine of Bachelor Tsar Boris, was last week, the house guest at Balmoral, Scotland, of Their Britannic Majesties. Queen Mary was reported to have baited His Majesty's hook, last week, with a worm, in the presence of witnesses. "She can do it much better than I can," was a remark attributed to George V by a correspondent of the U. S. Luke Lea newspaper chain...