Word: tsar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They wagered 50,000 Greek drachma ($650) on the sovereign to whom they are accredited, Tsar Boris of Bulgaria...
Surer still looked the thing a few weeks later when Elder Statesman Nicholas Muchanoff, who might have been expected to make the legal aspects of the match, was followed to Rome by dashing General Ivan Wolkoff, close intimate of Tsar Boris, a cavalier well able to achieve the amorous aspect of a monarch's suit...
...March the little Tsar himself left Sofia incognito?left behind a joyous and expectant people, thousands of whom had put Princess Giovanna's picture in one corner of their windowpanes and Tsar Boris' in the other. Sofia caf�s were hastily renamed Konditorei Giovanna. Delighted Bulgarian editors "learned on highest authority" that Pope Pius XI had agreed to the following compromise: all offspring of Roman Catholic Princess Giovanna except her first-born male would be reared as Roman Catholics; but the premier male, as Crown Prince of Bulgaria, would espouse the Eastern Orthodox religion in order to comply with...
...hours before Tsar Boris was to enter Italy incognito the 50,000 drachma bet seemed as good as won. Suddenly however Cavalier General Ivan Wolkoff left the amorous embers he had been poking up at Rome, rushed to meet and stop Tsar Boris at Vienna. Next day it was announced that a painful ear was the sole reason for the royal migration, and after this had been tinkered by a Viennese otologist His Majesty went, not to Rome, but on a brief, face-saving visit to Prague, Czechoslovakia. While there he did nothing more remarkable than pay a piquant visit...
...appears that Tardieu received regular payments during the years of 1912 and 1913 from the secret fund of the Russian government, to support Russian policy in the columns of Le Temps, where he wrote the leading articles on foreign politics, and, as a true servant of the Tsar, attacked the French ambassador in Saint Petersburg...