Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through his telescope espied from the Royal Palace four traveling salesmen playing cards in their Tirana hotel bedroom, telephoned over to ask if he could come and join the game. The defects of Tirana, plus His Majesty's extreme addiction to chain-smoked cigarets, plus the ever-present danger of a royal Albanian assassination, have made it almost impossible to find a suitable Queen. Last week, however, a Portuguese marriage broker was in Tirana all ready to turn the trick...
...birth (1519), she was such a sickly infant that her Great-Uncle Giovanni (Pope Leo X) was doubly disgusted with her. What was needed at that point in the Medici fortunes was a healthy boy. Having at last attained the Papacy, the Medici clan were in imminent danger of petering out. But useless as she might be in her own small person, Uncle Giovanni planned to use her as a political pawn, schemed how to marry her to best Medici advantage...
...Rome, the Pope held a solemn Mass of thanksgiving. A contemporary diplomat thus reported how Catherine emerged from the bloodbath she had ordered: "She looks ten years younger and gives me the impression of a person emerging from a grave illness or who had just escaped from some great danger." Once again-this-time she was 55- Catherine sat by the deathbed of a son who was also King of France. And again she had one to take his place. Henri III fled from his unwanted job as King of Poland and came home to see what...
Feeling the danger of a serious conflict has been greatly exaggerated, the well-known journalist and radio commentator clearly outlined his reasons for this unusually optimistic point of view...
...East, Kaltenborn feels that the danger of a Russo-Japanese clash, which in turn might spread to Europe, is steadily decreasing. In following the trend of Japanese expansion, he points out that there have been two routes open to Japanese armies, one to the North and one to the South, "And recently, the trend has been towards the South, where there can be no trouble with Russia...