Word: sofias
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Blood, according to despatches from Sofia, has flowed so freely in the Macedonian mountains for the past three years that last week a feud between the Protogueroffists and the Michailoffists was happily called off?the Protogueroffists being "virtually extinct" and their few survivors disposed to keep the peace pact...
...Catholic Princess Giovanna of Italy. They contracted, in Italy, to rear all their children as Catholics, despite Bulgarian law which requires that the King be Orthodox, and went through a Catholic marriage ceremony at Assisi, Italy. It poured that day. In thunder, lightning and rain they left Italy for Sofia. Storms lashed their ship all the way. At Sofia they went through another marriage ceremony according to Orthodox rite-with great pomp and publicity (TIME, Nov. 10 et ante...
...Orthodox Sofia ceremony vexed His Holiness. Last week he said: It "was with manifest offense to God, who Himself was thus dishonored in the sacrament which He Himself had instituted...
...Composer Serge Rachmaninoff. He could write down music from memory when, as in most cases, there was no music to be had. By the time the Don Cossacks were transported to Bulgaria their chorus was so good that it was engaged to sing in a Greek Orthodox Church in Sofia. In 1923 it gave its first formal concert in Vienna, has since sung some 1.800 times throughout Europe, the British Isles, Australia...
...From his office in Sofia...