Word: roumania
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...Parisian Cercle de I' Escrime (Fencing Club) all but wept last week as two of its members settled an affair of honor with four-ounce boxing gloves. "Duelist" Schapira, a prominent Swiss resident of Paris, easily cuffed into submission his adversary, M. H. Tersieff, a onetime boxing champion of Roumania. While members of the Cercle were deploring the "execrable dueling form" of both men, a despatch from Bucharest announced a duel still more scandalous...
Conversion. Queen Marie of Roumania, British reared daughter of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and therefore closely related to the British reigning house (now called Windsor), was brought up a Protestant. Her husband, King Ferdinand, is a Catholic. Yet their five living children were reared in the Greek Orthodox faith. Last week, according to Bucharest despatches, she joined the church of her offspring...
...Best is thoroughly acquainted with the Bolshevist educational system as it works out at present, as well as with the old Russian system which flourished under the Czarist regime. In addition to having lived many years in Russia, Dr. Storr-Best has recently taken extended trips through Czechoslovakia, Ingoslavia, Roumania, and Bulgaria for the British Board of Education with the purpose of making a detailed investigation of all types of education in these countries...
...Reign of Torture. M. Barbusse characteristically charges nothing less than that the governments of Roumania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Jugoslavia "maintain their supremacy through methods which make the Spanish Inquisition appear sweet and humane by contrast...
...Charles M. Schwab was a stage driver in his youth and is proud of it. Mr. Charles M. Ward is a nephew of Mr. Schwab. Last week Mr. Ward asked the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania, at Paris, whether he would like to drive a racing automobile at the opening, next May, of the Atlantic City Speedway, which has allegedly been financed by steel-magnate Schwab...