Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jules Pascin was born in Bulgaria 45 years ago, of a Spanish-Jewish father and a Serbo-Italian mother. He was educated in Vienna and Berlin, traveled everywhere, stayed in New York long enough to become a U. S. citizen, spent most of his life in Paris. He hated the rive gauche, and his studio was not on Montparnasse but on Montmartre, right next to the Moulin Rouge, among the music halls, zinc bars, hack stands and sporting houses whose employes and habitues were his models and friends. A few initiates knew that his last name was not Pascin...
...Black Shirts in Umbria presented to King Boris of Bulgaria on the occasion of his marriage [to Princess Giovanna of Italy] a simple, brightly polished dagger, taken from the regular arms depot of the Fascist Militia. How full of symbolical significance is this severe and lofty gift...
...general opposes mixed marriages and is "intransigeant about the conditions and precautions prescribed by" Roman Catholic Church law. Pius XI has been considering such an encyclical on mixed marriages for some time. What prompted its preparation now was the recent "scandalous" remarriage of Bulgarian (Eastern) Orthodox Tsar Boris of Bulgaria and Roman Catholic Princess Giovanna of Italy. They contracted, in Italy, to rear all their children as Catholics, despite Bulgarian law which requires that the King be Orthodox, and went through a Catholic marriage ceremony at Assisi, Italy. It poured that day. In thunder, lightning and rain they left Italy...
...find a parallel for this cruelty, and at the same time the origin of our name "stool pigeon," in The Passenger Pigeon in Pennsylvania, a book compiled some years ago by Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, at present U. S. minister to Bulgaria...
When Tsar Boris of Bulgaria married Princess Giovanna of Italy this autumn he agreed to the usual stipulation that all his children be brought up as Roman Catholics...