Word: serbians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambitious parents busy themselves in Belgrade trying to wangle their moppets into the Charles Dickens Kindergarten. There they learn from Serbian teachers what passes for English, the tongue in which Boy King Peter and his little brothers Prince Tomislav and Prince Andreja do most of their shouting, squabbling and chattering. Last week the social advantages of being an alumnus or alumna of the Charles Dickens Kindergarten were again evident in Belgrade as news went forth that a dozen scholars had been given a party by King Peter & Brothers at the white marble Dedinje Palace...
...Almost all of our toys are electric," the dazzled Serbian moppets were told by 11-year-old King Peter. An earnest child, His Majesty then sat down at the wheel of his electric automobile, commanded favored child subjects to climb in behind, sedately drove the car around his palace grounds. Meanwhile, 7-year-old Prince Tomislav was out on the Palace lake, piloting other moppets in the King's electric boat. Astonishing, however, was the turn of royal duty done by 6-year-old Prince Andreja. Moppets lisped in Serbian-English after the party that "Pwinth Andwea wode...
...Slav. ... In the middle of the room officers are sitting around a large table eating. They throw bones on the floor, drink wine and lick their fingers! This abominable scene filled the American public with wonder and at the time caused merriment and hilarity. The officers speak half Serbian and half English! . . . The fugitives travel by automobile toward Belgrade. On the way they see a company of Yugoslavian troops approaching. The chauffeur stops the car and says. I am pretending there is something wrong with the motor, for if the soldiers see a good automobile they immediately will steal...
Died. Michael Idvorsky Pupin, 76, physicist, inventor, longtime (1901-31) professor of electromechanics at Columbia University, onetime Serbian shepherd boy; of uremic poisoning following anemia and influenza; in Manhattan. Chief inventions: an inductance coil for long distance telephones; X-ray technique which shortened the exposure time from an hour to a few seconds; a wireless tuning device to overcome interference; an electrolytic rectifier to handle high-frequency signals...
...Duke of Leeds, who married Marianne de Malkhazouny, Serbian ballet dancer, in 1933, sold his estates for $1,250,000 and his ancestral coronet for $40 and now lives on the Italian Riviera...