Word: six-year-old
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...Legation garden with Mr. Culbertson's small daughters (whom reckless correspondents described as "sons" on one such occasion). The American Minister, having addressed His Majesty and perceived that he is not deaf, and having received from his own eyes and daughters, ample testimony of the six-year-old monarch's normalcy, was able and glad to reassure Rumanians who had not access to their King. A scurrilous despatch from Bucharest, last week, envisioned His Majesty as licking with relish and sticking onto many an envelope stamps of the new series which bears his portrait...
...requested the abdicated onetime Crown Prince Carol of Rumania to leave England within five days, on account of the attempt which Carol allegedly made last fortnight (TIME, May 14) to charter two British air liners for a dash to Rumania, with intent to seize the Throne from his six-year-old son, King Mihai...
Having sworn, the caucus approved a resolution calling upon the regency-which reigns for six-year-old King Mihai-to dismiss Aristocrat Vintila Bratiano and call to the Prime Ministry onetime Peasant Juliu Maniu...
Briefly, the Prime Minister announced that on Nov. 1, 1928, the Empire will abandon its six-year-old program of attempting to force up the world price of rubber by curtailing the supply. This program, the so-called Stevenson Plan, went into effect in 1922, when crude rubber stood at 17? a pound, and bounced the price up within three years to $1.21. That meant bonanza profits for British plantations. Why then is the Stevenson Plan about to be scrapped...
Speaking at last of her six-year-old grandson, King Mihai of Rumania, the Dowager Queen, 52, said: "At present he speaks only two languages, Rumanian and English. He is a very understanding child and he often blurts out the most unex pected remarks. He is good looking. . . . But whenever I see him a certain sadness overcomes me, for we cherished other dreams...