Word: illyria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thinking. Joseph Stalin, Friend of Peace, had metamorphosed into Joseph Stalin, Aggressor. And unfortunately his aggression was taking great bites out of German spheres of ambition. Would it not be better, suggested the newspaper, if, like Alexander, Joseph Stalin buckled on his breastplate and greaves and struck out for Illyria, Phoenicia, Babylonia, the empires of Persia and those lands which are watered by the Indus...
...rascal is Stephan Stephanovitch, absolute monarch of the minor Balkan kingdom of Illyria, as he sits in his shirtsleeves in the Royal Palace of Zeta playing chess with General Kosovo, his Prime Minister. Illyria is in a sad state of affairs. A foreign loan must be floated somehow, and without signing away the vast undeveloped oilfields at Tokar. Questions of the royal succession are also troubling Stephan. His eldest son Dushan had renounced his royal birthright to marry an American, and now is dead. Milan, the present Crown Prince, who shoots horses out of his way rather than walk around...
Prime Minister Kosovo broaches a plan. Why not bring Dushan's U. S. daughter to Illyria, establish the royal succession on her, spike Marko's revolutionary guns by marrying her off to him? This innocent suggestion precipitates a cloudburst of consequences. Helen Stevens the innocent U. S. princess, John Brent a U. S. oil man, the weazely Sloat, knightly bandits, politicians, Tsernagorean guards are soon embroiled in a terrific free-for-all from which Helen finally emerges in John Brent's arms asking for an ice-cream soda and a passage home...
Observers noted that though the racing fleet was as numerous as usual the accompanying fleet was smaller than it has been for 30 years. A few big auxiliaries-Cornelius Crane's Illyria, Gerard Lambert's three-master Atlantic, Floyd Leslie Carlisle's Michabo-were ready to follow the races, but of the customary squadron of large steam yachts there were only two: Hiram Edward Manville's Hi-Esmaro and George Fisher Baker's Viking. On board the Viking, because his own flagship Valiant was too small. Commodore Aldrich held a meeting of all captains...
...where last week he entertained Crane Co. employes there are no modern Crane Co. bathrooms. Richard Jr. has but one son Cornelius, recently elected a director of the company. He has never, however, worked therein, prefers to make scientific expeditions in the South Seas with his 147-ft. yacht, Illyria...