Word: carolled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pasted the establishment's labels on a small mountain of luggage, he grinned to observe a dictatorial Roumanian gentleman who fumed with the proprietor over the last items of a considerable bill. Suddenly a petite red-haired young woman emerged from the hotel lift with the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania. Before them scurried the Roumanian gentleman, dictatorial no longer, to usher Mme. Magda Lupescu and the former Crown Prince into an automobile which sped to the great Stazione Centrale...
Other motors followed them. They contained pressmen whose blase hearts were a-thumping. Was Carol, after dwelling sub rosa in Milan with Mme. Lupescu for nearly two months (TIME, Jan. 18 et seq.), about to return to Bucharest? Was he going to resume his abdicated rank? Would Mme. Lupescu attempt to go with him, or would she merely...
Working swiftly and in the dead of night, friends of the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania (TIME, Jan. 11, 18) pasted up enormous scarlet caricatures upon the buildings of Bucharest, the capital. Had Queen Marie (Carol's mother) ridden abroad in the early dawn, she would have beheld a coarse likeness of her alleged "court favorite," Prince Babu Stirbey, leering at her everywhere above the caption, "This...
...Carolist press, although mercilessly repressed by the Government censor, managed to insinuate the alleged significance of all these developments. It hinted that before Prince Carol set out to attend the funeral of Queen Alexandra (TIME, Jan. 11,) he "encountered Prince Babu Stirbey in the antechamber of Queen Marie's apartments and proceeded to box his ears...
Late in the week a despatch from Bucharest reported: "It is now openly rumored that King Ferdinand countermanded the order of Prince Babu Stirbey for the arrest of Deputy Filipescu. . . . The abdication of Crown Prince Carol is now widely interpreted as a protest against Prince Babu Stirbey's having compromised his mother and made his father appear ridiculous...