Word: caroled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From now on, the U.S. Weather Bureau will distinguish Atlantic hurricanes by girls' names, as the Air Force and Navy have been doing for years in the Pacific. The first big tropical blow each season will be called Alice. Then will come Barbara, Carol, Dolly, etc. The average number of hurricanes (seven) will run through the alphabetical list as far as Gail. Only an unprecedented number (the record was 21 in 1933) will include a hurricane named Wallis (after the Duchess of Windsor...
...five years Carol and Magda played the Gold Coast-Paris, Deauville, Venice -until, in 1928, a new government came to power in Rumania and began dickering with Carol. Carol promised to drop Magda. "What man would renounce a throne because of a woman?" he asked a newsman. "She [Magda] did not take me from my country, and she will not stand in my way if I want to return." Said Magda: "Although Carol is dearer to me than life ... I have always been prepared to make any sacrifice for him." In 1930, Parliament proclaimed him King, dating his reign back...
...manifesto. For Rumania, Magda was wrong from every point of view. Her mother had been a Viennese dancer; she herself had been baptized in the Catholic Church and, if that was not enough in a non-Catholic and anti-Semitic country, her father had been a Jewish apothecary. But Carol would not give her up. Said he: "She is the other half of my being, the other half of my brain." When peasants and fascists rioted, Carol took the government into his own hands. He appointed anti-Semitic Premiers, hoping to appease Hitler, but announced "there shall be no violence...
...Carol and Magda fled Rumania under a hail of Nazi bullets. They lived quietly in Mexico for a while, then went to Brazil. There Magda took ill with pernicious anemia, and doctors thought she was dying. In their Copacabana Palace suite in 1947, Carol at long last married Elena Lupescu, whom he proclaimed Princess Elena. When Magda recovered, they went to live, a portly, aging couple in Estoril in Portugal, haven of exiled royalties. There last week, with Magda beside him and few to mourn him, Carol, 59, died of a stroke...
Died. Onetime King Carol II of Rumania, 59; of a heart attack; in exile at Estoril, Portugal (see FOREIGN NEWS...