Word: bulgars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Georgi Dimitroff was the sensation of the Reichstag Fire Trial (TIME, Sept. 25, et seq.). With fiery Bulgar wit he conducted his own defense, taunted Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring into a jittering rage and finally forced State Prosecutor Werner to ask his acquittal...
...demand the floor!" shouted George Dimitroff. "In the name of the world proletariat . . ." Judge Bünger cut the battling Bulgar short. "This trial," he shouted, "is finished...
...Bulgar Potter's Prize
Until January Sculptor Katchamakoff was a Bulgar. Born in Sofia 33 years ago, he practiced law just one year. A plausible talker, he successfully argued himself out of a libel suit for modelling and exhibiting a head of the Mayor of Sofia in his cups. Entering the National Art Academy, he was promptly disowned by his father. In 1922, 1924 he won sculpture prizes in Berlin, Venice, came to the U. S., got a job making models for Hollywood super-spectacles. Came the talkies and the end of such pageants, but Sculptor Katchamakoff was not disheartened. He moved to Palm...
After the ceremony Sofia erupted with Bulgar abandon. Public buildings were strung with electric bulbs. Men, women, children clambered like monkeys up the high iron grille of the palace gate, danced in the streets till dawn. Police did not allow the playing of the Fascist hymn "Giovinezza," but revelers sang themselves hoarse with "0 Sole Mio" in Bulgarian. At the palace it was announced, next day, that Their Majesties had slipped out a back door and danced unrecognized in the streets with their subjects...