Word: bulgaria
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...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...
Placidly General Ivan Miller, No. i White Russian in Paris, observed: "When opportunity arrives our army will cross the borders to fight Stalin." Added Cossack General A. P. Bogaievsky fiercely, "We have several cavalry divisions training in Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria -merely awaiting the word to cross the Russian frontier...
Jaroff. Little Jaroff had once been a pupil of Composer Serge Rachmaninoff. He could write down music from memory when, as in most cases, there was no music to be had. By the time the Don Cossacks were transported to Bulgaria their chorus was so good that it was engaged to sing in a Greek Orthodox Church in Sofia. In 1923 it gave its first formal concert in Vienna, has since sung some 1.800 times throughout Europe, the British Isles, Australia...
...only "essential act" omitted from the second service was the exchange of rings. Reporters noted that while both the Chief Rabbi and Grand Mufti (Mohammedan) of Bulgaria were present, the Apostolic Visitor to Bulgaria did not attend; noted too that Groom Boris crossed himself repeatedly in the Orthodox manner (right to left), Bride Ivana in the Catholic manner (left to right...