Word: caroled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scapegrace King Carol was received at Maryborough House in London last week by discriminating Queen Mary who did not receive his henna-haired Jewish friend, Mme Magda Lupescu. After both Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had called upon His Majesty, King Carol announced with a keen sense of timing that he had just bought the $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin which was leased last year by King Edward VIII for his cruise with Mrs. Wallis Simpson. Said His Majesty: "She is a beautiful vessel, one of the most splendid afloat. I need relief sometimes from State...
...Harry Guggenheim of New York. Elsa Maxwell, funster for the unimaginative rich, was expected back again. In the swank Cafe Bazar and Count Alfred Salm's tearoom across the way, chatter about the Duke & Duchess of Windsor's impending arrival all but submerged the news that King Carol of Rumania, King Leopold III of Belgium, Prince Umberto of Italy, the young Franklin Roosevelts were coming...
Final break between King Carol and his violent-tempered brother (who was once accused of kicking a taxi driver in the pit of the stomach) occurred at a family dinner party in Bucharest's Cotroceni Palace where King Carol was making one more effort to persuade Prince Nicholas to abandon his commoner wife, the former Mme Jana Lucia Deletj. Present at the dinner were Queen Mother Marie, Prince Nicholas, Crown Prince Mihai. When Carol proposed a toast to his own red-haired commoner friend, Magda Lupescu, 15-year-old Crown Prince Mihai dropped his champagne glass on the floor...
...list for conversion by Missionary Mussolini. Significantly Poland's pro-Nazi Foreign Minister Joseph Beck three weeks ago was in the Rumanian capital to explain that "Rumania is necessary to Poland's security because of Russia's nearness." Foreign Minister Beck, in earnest conversations with King Carol, sought to renew and put teeth into the 1921 Polish-Rumanian Treaty. If he succeeded, the Rome-Berlin axis would be completely buffered on the east except for Czechoslovakia, satellite of "Marxist" France...
...Stranger (Trafalgar). Adapted from a play by Frank Vosper (who last month disappeared in mid-ocean), this film investigates the prelude to a quiet murder in a British country house. The afternoon she advertises her flat for rent because she has just won first prize in a Paris lottery, Carol Howard (Ann Harding) receives a prospective tenant in the person of Gerald Lovell (Basil Rathbone), whose worldly manners soon so charm her that she marries him. After a gay honeymoon in Paris, they settle down together in a Kentish cottage, paid for with funds which Gerald has borrowed from...