Word: transylvania
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...developed that behind the conspiracy was a mixed combination of malcontents. Some of them were men of alien Transylvania which the Treaty of Trianon took from Hungary to add to Rumania. Others were Iron Guardsmen, deputized by their mystical and formidable leader, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. Others were plain Lupescu-haters. Still others were merely against Premier Tatarescu. All that united them was hatred for the Sinaia Camarilla, the group of Lupescu's friends who meet with the King at the palace of Sinaia...
...newsorgans promptly claimed that this "spiritual nation" will not stop at the frontiers of the Reich. "After the Constitution of the Evangelical Church of the German Nation has been acknowledged," crowed the Nazi Kreiiz Zeitung, "the Evangelical Church of Austria will belong to it and the Evangelical churches of Transylvania, Jugoslavia, the Baltic regions and lands across the sea will be able to conclude working agreements with this really German Evangelical Church...
...head of Carol's son, Boy King Mihai (TIME. June 16, 1930). Next thing Premier Maniu knew he was ousted. The King and his favorites were spending right & left, bankrupting Rumania. In silence and in dignity Professor Maniu retired to his law books among the peasants of Transylvania. Last week he took his time about obeying the Royal "command" to come to Bucharest and save for Rumania once more...
...Harvard was chartered in 1636, William & Mary in 1693. TIME erred last month in reporting Washington & Jefferson the oldest (1787) west of the Alleghenies. Oldest is Transylvania college (Lexington, Ky.), founded...
Thomas Love Peacock wrote the lines, though George Borrow might have written them. Wanderiuster Baerlein might have written them too. It is in this tone, rare in English literature, that he tells of his roamings in Transylvania...