Word: wolkoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...