Word: king
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While reporters typed stories of this happy birthday, came other more sinister reports. In changing the title of his country from "The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes" to the "Kingdom of Jugoslavia," Dictator-King Alexander has set boiling afresh a stew of acute racial feeling. In the Cathedral at Zagreb a sharp-eared sacristan discovered a ticking bomb timed to explode during the King's birthday mass. Railway employes fished a 60-lb. bomb off the tracks of the Zagreb-Belgrade railroad just before the special train of a royalist delegation was due to pass. In Zagreb railway...
...sing Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin are heavy, Teutonic, have small flare for acting. That a knight should trouble to rescue them is often unbelievable. But at the new Chicago Civic Opera House last week an audience was pleasurably surprised. The Elsa .who came pathetically before the king was slender, lovely, of exceeding grace. That her voice was commensurately light mattered little to those who watched her. She used it as skillfully as she did her hands...
...Recently he revived a symphony by Prussian King Frederick the Great, famed in his time as a flautist, patron, composer...
Suit Dropped. A breach of promise action against James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired champion fisticuffer; by Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty, divorcee, of Fort Worth, Tex.; at Bridgeport, Conn...
Sued. Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty; by James Joseph Tunney; at Bridgeport, Conn. The charge: Extortion, defamation of character...