Word: faik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suite on the second floor of Washington's Mayflower Hotel constitutes the legation of the Kingdom of Albania. The drawing room is dominated by a talking-machine with a Gargantuan, oldfashioned, master's-voice horn. Presiding there since 1926 has been cultured, convivial Faik (pronounced "fah-eek") Konitza, a sixtyish bachelor who reads 13 languages, has an earned M. A. from Harvard University and numbers among his friends beauteous Ann Corio, famed Italianate strip-teaseuse...
...Among them: George M. Cohan, Thomas E. Dewey, Howard Hughes, Faik Konitza, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...been reported, hunting rich U. S. husbands-up to last week they had not bagged any-they were admittedly seeking to heal the breach between Bishop Noli and their brother. This they accomplished with great dispatch with the aid of the Albanian minister to the U. S., Faik Konitza, a friend of both Zog and the bishop. Minister Konitza, Bishop Noli and the three princesses chatted in Boston's Ritz-Carlton Hotel and next day the Moslem sisters, overdressed as usual, attended two Boston Albanian churches in which prayers were offered for King Zog and the people of Albania...
...Majesty King Zog I of Albania and to His Excellency Faik bey Konitza, TIME's apologies for reprinting in its Letters column a long current untruth...