Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Joe Lyons & wife loomed last week as two of the most notable characters to emerge from what uppity Great Britons call ''Down Under." Seven short years ago the Hon. Mr. Lyons was merely Premier of Tasmania, an island which is down under Australia and referred to by Australians as "The Speck." From this insignificant island Joe Lyons bounded with Horatio Alger rapidity to the Premiership (January 1932) of busted Australia whose national credit he proceeded to restore. Australian-born, the Premier and Mrs. Lyons had never been outside Australia in their lives until this spring when they sailed...
...previous Government bounty for the New Deal which is old Down Under to have taken a fatal beating. From a critical Marxist viewpoint Australia is pinker than the U. S. today and Premier Lyons is but little whiter in his politics than President Roosevelt. Both leaders limp heavily, the Australian because of an automobile accident, but both mask physical heaviness with the spirit which makes Premier Lyons' favorite greeting a slap between the shoulder blades and a cry to Mrs. Lyons to "make 'em feel at home!" While the President finds solace in postage stamps the Premier in leisure moments...
Princess Mary recovered from the appendectomy uneventfully. But her quick excitability and easy fatigue did not disappear. The slightest exertion set her atremble. These and other peculiarities led Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's personal physician, Dr. Knuthsen and Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill, an Australian who achieved eminence as a London thyroid surgeon, to conclude that Princess Mary suffered with exophthalmic goitre...
...Australian hero is Air Commodore Sir Charley Edward Kingsford-Smith. Co-pilot and navigator on most of his flights is a thickset, baldish onetime mail pilot named Capt. P. G. ("Bill") Taylor. Because of Capt. Taylor's uncanny ability to find dotlike islands in midocean, Sir Charles's comment after most flights consists of: "Bill's course, as usual, perfect...
...Arrested at Kagoshima and held overnight was an Australian woman named Gertrude Edward Snyder, who had made a practice of wandering off the beaten tourist track in the Japanese back country...