Word: zagreb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Like the assassins of King Alexander, Artist Vanka is a Croat. Born in Zagreb 44 years ago, he wears a soft brown beard, likes to paint in an embroidered blouse and a black trilby hat. He is easily Yugoslavia's best known portraitist. His painting is workmanlike, able...
...Rasnik, Jugoslavia, peasants told Angjelija Nukitch she was the prettiest girl in all the world. Then spiteful villagers came back from Zagreb with news that they had seen girls who made Angjelija look homely by comparison. Pretty Angjelija wrote a note saying that she did not want to live in a world that held prettier girls, hanged herself...
...freight. For a few hours King Alexander lay in state, before being carried to a special train and sent on a slow roundabout journey through the provinces of his enemies to his capital. At every important town the train made a brief pause, longest of all in Zagreb, capital of "rebellious Croatia." If any still hated Alexander they dared not show...
Without bothering to trump up charges, the royal police pounced on Rev. Anton Koroshetz, Slovene minority leader and on Dr. Vladko Matchek, Croat minority leader who was dragged at night out of a restaurant at Zagreb, hustled off to Belgrade without being permitted to say good-by to his wife & children...
...Zagreb, Jugoslavia, Mije Juritchich shinned up the cross of a cathedral, stood on his head, turned handsprings, danced, got his coveted fireman...