Word: bulgaria
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...merely unscientific and cheap, for example a drawing of Fujiyama with a tree in the foreground captioned "The Old Japan"; the same drawing with a cannon substituted for the tree, captioned "The New Japan." Author Van Loon's bright chapter headings catch the eye, may engage many a reader: "Bulgaria, the soundest of all Balkan countries, whose butterfly-collecting King bet on the wrong horse during the Great War and suffered the consequences"; "Rumania, a country which has oil and a royal family...
...locomotive-engineer named Augustus Phillips of Falls City, Neb. returned to the U. S. from a visit to his native Aitos, Bulgaria. After the villagers had serenaded him and his wife with a mandolin & harmonica band for 16 nights, he related, word of his presence reached the ears of Tsar Boris at the summer palace at Varna nearby. Tsar Boris, whose best fun is driving a locomotive, sent a carriage and plumed horses for Engineer Phillips. Recounted Mr. Phillips: "[at the palace] he motioned me to a sofa and we sat down. . . . He told me that one problem that...
...nations still represented last week, adjourning the Conference to "Jan. 21, 1933 at the latest" passed with the U. S., Great Britain, France, Japan and a total of 37 other nations voting "For Adjournment." Herr Nadolny voted "Against." Comrade Litvinov voted "For Disarmament: Against Adjournment!" Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Hungary, Italy and Turkey abstained from voting...
Emil Ganso has been called the artistic heir† of Jules Pascin (pronounced Pass-kin, born Pincas, first name unremembered, in Bulgaria of a Spanish-Jewish father and a Serbo-Italian mother) who slit his wrists and hanged himself on his Montmartre bedroom doorknob in 1930 (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931). Ganso was Pascin's star pupil. Pascin is still Ganso's model as an artist. Ganso paints and draws the same loose-hipped women, is partial to the same drooping, bulbous com position. Like Pascin, he makes a fetish of loyalty to his friends. Unlike Pascin, who hated...
Died. Count Chedomille Miyatovitch, 90, three times Serbian Minister to Britain; in London. In 1886, after an eight-month war, he wrote the world's shortest peace treaty: "Peace between Serbia and Bulgaria is restored...