Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Little Tsar Boris of the Bulgarians lay abed in Vienna last fortnight with a pain in the ear, and in Bulgaria many a cafe owner knew not what to call his groggery and it all seemed to be the Pope's fault...
Some weeks back bachelor Tsar Boris left Sofia in cheerful mood. Traveling incognito as Count Stanislaw Rilski of Warsaw, he joked with railway officials, and hoped that this would be his last journey alone. It was understood in Sofia that Tsar Boris's official matchmaker, gallant General Ivan Wolkoff, was in Rome arranging for the marriage of Tsar Boris with the King of Italy's daughter Giovanna. Pictures of Princess Giovanna appeared in Sofia shopwindows. Newspapers said that a compromise had been reached with the Vatican whereby the first male child of Princess Giovanna and Tsar Boris might...
...days Tsar Boris was his usual cheerful self in Vienna, waiting for word to proceed to Rome. But no word came. Instead came General Wolkoff, glum and forbidding. The Vatican had not agreed to any compromise, it appeared. Unless all offspring of the union were brought up as Roman Catholics the Pope would not sanction or bless the marriage, and Princess Giovanna would automatically become excommunicate...
...days later Tsar Boris went to Prague and attended a performance of Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw. The manager of the theatre, glancing through a prompt copy of the play, noticed that the scene was laid in Bulgaria, and read the line: "My father never had a bath in his life." Bulgaria was hastily changed to Albania, and the performance was given with great success...
...crowd of mumbling peasants fills a convent courtyard and hails, when whipped by his henchman, the man they do not want for Tsar. The scene changes and in his cell, by the feeble light of a lamp, a monk sits writing the history of Muscovy, how a Tsar's son has been killed and his murderer has taken the throne. Again a change; the Kremlin bells are ringing and across the square that separates the Cathedrals of the Assumption and the Archangels there files a procession ?deacons, sons of boyars, boyars and the new Tsar himself. Gloria! Gloria...