Word: caroled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first scheduled stop was made at Cluj in Transylvania. In a general's uniform "M. Caraiman" tested out popular sentiment, was "well though not wildly cheered. It was announced that Carol "insisted" upon flying "on to Bucharest," although this would be "dangerous" as "darkness" was approaching. At this point the building up of legend, which surrounds every King and is part of his royal armor, began...
...Darling King-Boy!" The rest is and must be legend. It was given out that Carol rushed into the great vaulted hall crying, "Where...
When Prince Nicholas entered the palace, the brothers rushed weeping into each other's arms. Like a plummet at this point Boy King Mihai dropped out of the legend, for he was not to be king any more. Romantic interest was transferred to Carol's triumphant passage through streets jammed with madly cheering citizens to the barracks of his old bodyguard...
...Carol's regiment, the 1st Hussars, fired a royal salute to him who was still "M. Caraiman." Legend had it that he spent the rest of the night drinking and gambling with Prince Nicholas and brother officers?this being the sort of conduct expected and approved by Rumanians in the case of an officer, gentleman or King of spirit...
...Carol is King!" Next morning planes wrote "Carol" in the sky as the Lowe chamber met, every deputy in a dress suit. In orthodox Catholic fashion they voted that Carol never renounced his rights, that Mihai has never been King, that since July 20, 1927 the King of Rumania has been "Carol II." This blanket annulment, wiping out the events of three years, was passed by 310 "Yesses" over the "No" of Liberal Leader Vintila Brati-anu while his 39 Liberal henchmen abstained. Chamber and Senate then met together as the National Assembly...