Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through a misunderstanding with his best girl about soul-satisfying, putt-producing profanity. Rollo Podmarsh is the subject of another reminiscence. Rollo was too good to be happy or play golf or make love or anything, until his small cousin put rum in his arrowroot tea. But then- And Ferdinand Dibble-there was a case-had the heart of a "goof" until his girl booed his opponent on the last tee and he finally won a match. And William Bates, the stolid oaf: it took an insufferable poet and a water hazard to nerve him to propose. And Wallace Chesney...
Queen Marie of Rumania telephoned in some agitation last week to her daughter Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. King Ferdinand of Rumania, phoned Queen Marie to Queen Marie, had suffered a relapse in his long, chronic illness (TIME, Nov. 29 et seq.). Soon a telephone operator who overheard the royal conversation started a rumor which grew and gathered, gravity until correspondents in Berlin asserted "on the highest authority" that King Ferdinand was dead...
...Sluys, head of the Solvay Radium Institute of Brussels, Belgium, who has several times administered radium treatment to King Ferdinand, suddenly left Brussels enroute to Bucharest where he arrived last week...
...abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, eldest son of King Ferdinand left Paris by private airplane, refused to state where he was going, was not followed by correspondents...
Alexander I is one of the few monarchs still potent in affairs of state. He suddenly paid a visit to his father-in-law, King Ferdinand of Rumania. At the same time the French Mediterranean fleet concentrated off Rumania's chief port, Constanta, To excited correspondents it seemed that King Alexander might have asked for and received a French naval demonstration to remind Rumania not to fall in too closely with Premier Mussolini's plans...