Word: sofia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Barton Payne, Chairman of the American Red Cross and Secretary of the Interior under Wilson (1920-21): "In Bulgaria my train chugged, halted, chugged on. Peasants cheered me at every station. At Sofia, King Boris received me with gratitude. I am now on a good will tour of the world. I fell ill and King Boris' personal physician attended...
...long sputtering fuses in the good old way. The bombee, if an experienced official, has at least a sporting chance of snuffing out the fuse before explosion happens. Therefore, last week, when a bomb hurtled past Chief of the Secret Police Ikonomoff as he was entering his house at Sofia and rolled ahead of him down the dark hall, the worst was not necessarily to be feared. . . . Experienced, adept, Chief Ikonomoff did not flee out into the street, but sought to protect his household by darting forward to extinguish the bomb. Similarly Little Tsar Boris, when fired upon by assassins...
...Former Dictator Pangalos of Greece imposed a tax on bachelors which rose between age 20 and 40, and fell thereafter as the proliferous potentialities of the bachelor decreased. Bulgaria and the Irish Free State have a somewhat similar tax. A sensation was created recently in Sofia when a Turkish eunuch applied for exemption...
Fords, Bulgars. The Ford Motor Co. is reported to have privately offered a loan of $5,000,000 to the Bulgarian government with which to build roads, and to have secured the concession to open a motor car factory in Sofia. Thus the Bulgars will have double incitement to buy Fords, often jocosely called "road bugs," for pleasant travel in their craggy country...
...have U. S. embassies and legations been, bombed in Paris, Sofia, Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Montevidio...