Word: carolers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charity but given to the child of an unemployed Welsh miner. "Will the little mother of this doll," wrote Last Year's Woman, "kindly name it Wallis?" During 1937 the $1,350,000 yacht Nahlin on which King Edward and Mrs. Simpson cruised was bought by King Carol of Rumania for his henna-haired Mme Magda Lupescu, who many a Rumanian feels is perennially That Woman of the Year...
...snowball should refuse to melt in Hell, King Carol of Rumania would be no more surprised than he was last week by the results of Rumania's elections. Any Premier, no matter how unpopular, traditionally wins the election in Rumania if he has the support of the King. One reason for this is that the police always "work for the King's candidate" (four people were killed last week) and this factor alone has been found by experience to be worth 20% of the votes. If a Premier can then poll 20% more on his own popularity...
...Rumania anyhow and endless bickering can be avoided only by giving whichever party is strong enough to win 40% unchallenged power. "Our system combines many of the best features of Democracy as well as Fascism," Rumanian courtiers are fond of purring. Last week they were aghast as King Carol's unpopular Premier George Tata-rescu's followers were found to have won only 38.5.% of the seats...
...King's mistress Mme Lupescu and the Premier had been vigorously repudiated by the whole Rumanian people. The Parliamentary Opposition has long denounced His Majesty's open flaunting in strongly anti-Semitic Rumania of a Jewish mistress notorious for selling political favors. But last week King Carol did not think of abdicating and Premier Tatarescu, although defeated, thought of a desperate measure by which he might...
...King Carol invited Premici Tatarescu to lunch at the Royal Palace. Abruptly the Electoral Commission announced that it did not approve of the proposal by His Majesty's Government to construe the returns so as to give itself 50%. Denounced by the Commission, the Premier wrote out and signed his resignation, left it with the King. In Court circles it was said that nothing would be done until after the New Year holidays, and by that time M. Tatarescu may conceivably have been able to line up support from other Rumanian parties for a coalition Cabinet. It was even...