Word: montenegro
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...police after that, and some narrow escapes, but they never got him. Meantime he had fallen in love (seriously, this time) with an Indian lass, and she with him. Her stern parent, in view of Jimmy's uncertain social position, frowned on the match, and a blackguard named Montenegro, an even harder case than Jimmy, married the girl. It was a blow to Jimmy but he went his way, dodging the police, smacking other hard cases when they asked for it, gradually adding to his flocks until he was regarded as a man of property. But by then...
...never forgot Juana, the Indian girl his rival had stolen from him. When Montenegro finally went too far, was arrested and put behind the bars, Jimmy seized his chance and went off with Juana. After she had borne him several children he did what he could to legalize her position by marrying her. And he finally risked an appearance in town, got his claim to his own lands recorded. He became a respectable, retired, sheep-ranching outlaw. By the time the Childses met her, Juana's earlier charms had faded and thickened; she seemed to think that...
...Royal Jack Sprat and his Queen would not present an appearance more distinctive than do Their Majesties King Vittorio Emanuele and Queen Elena. From the wild mountains of Montenegro, where women are not only women but Amazons, came Elena. Last week Her Majesty wrote to peasant-born Benito Mussolini with Amazonian directness...
Died. Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia, 67, widow of Grand Duke Nicholas, commander-in-chief of the Imperial Russian Army during the World War; at her villa in the French Maritime Alps. A daughter of the first and last King of Montenegro, she was a sister of Queen Elena of Italy and an aunt of the assassinated Alexander I of Yugoslavia...
Traveling about the country, living on goats' cheese and skewered lamb, Dr. House witnessed the complete independence of Serbia, Rumania and Montenegro; saw a Hohenzollern prince proclaimed Rumania's first king; later saw the Duke of Edinburgh's flighty daughter Marie started on her way to becoming that country's most famed queen. The first Balkan War and the Second came and went, followed by the World War, the Greek Revolution and the birth of Albania but Dr. House kept right on teaching school. Once in 1902 he made world headlines by spending nine weeks hunting...