Word: carolled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thoroughly annoyed, Carol threw his companion's mink coat over his arm, seized her bouquet of roses, and requested her, in Roumanian, to leave the wagon-lit by a door at the opposite end from that whence he descended. The cameramen, torn between the two good shots thus offered, exploded their flashlights frantically, cursed vociferously, literally stalked their photographic game...
...correspondents became vexed when "M. Scarlat Mondstireanu" (Carol's incognito) and Mme. Lupescu were shepherded into the Paris Train de Luxe by Carol's officious Roumanian secretary. Throughout the night, all persons concerned jolted and jounced in the crosswise cubicles of that admirable and omniscient concern, La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-restaurants et Wagons-lits et des Grands Express Europ?...
During the trip Carol neglected to shave before the ingenious folding washstand provided in the individual compartments of all wagons-lits. The correspondents, thoroughly out of humor by morning, reported that "this Hohenzollern scion had obviously not even washed." They further added to his troubles by wiring ahead for whole platoons of cameramen. At Paris the last wheeze of the air-brakes was drowned amid the boom of flashlight powders...
Outside the station a sleek limousine belonging to the Roumanian Embassy waited. Into it stepped Mme. Lupescu, whose toque was brown. Into it stepped Carol, "whose princely Adam's Apple bounced up and down on his long scrawny neck," according to the now frankly vexed pressmen...
...moments later, at the Hotel Chambord in the Champs-Elysées, Carol sharply replied to questions as to whether he is about to resume his royal rank. He emitted a single sentence in six languages: "I cannot answer you!" His tormentors exulted over this "admission...