Word: kaslov
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank Kaslov, king of the gypsies of America, was a bachelor. He had no heart for any woman longer than an hour; none of the gypsy women could win him with the charms that sleep in satin skins and shiny eyes. And his mother, fearing that the royal line would perish, said to him, "It is time for you to find yourself a bride and leave off treating the woman question lightly...
...mother, where will I find one?" Frank Kaslov asked. "For surely, mother, you would not see me joined to one of these squat women, with no teeth in their mouths, with noses like fishhooks...
...Frank Kaslov, king of the gypsies, journeyed to Milan. His ticket was paid for by 600 U. S. gypsy families, who desired to see the old queen with a grandson and the young king with a wife. But in Milan, Italy, the women were not as his mother had said. "Go to Padua," a stranger advised him. But in Padua a plague had left the gypsy women with pocked cheeks. Too much child-bearing had broadened the gypsies of Cadiz. It was not until he went to Marseilles, on the advice of a knowing uncle, that he found his girl...
...King Kaslov's young courtiers with difficulty concealed their envy of her matchless charm, the ripened, comforting charm of a generously constructed woman of some twoscore summers, about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing close to 200 pounds...