Word: belgian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news photographer boarded the Berengaria at Quarantine last week and trotted about the boat deck looking for members of the D'Oyly Carte operatic stock company, making their first visit to the U. S. in many a year. He found a spectacular looking lady, now blonde, clutching a small Belgian griffon and practically studded with sparkling stones...
...Stealthy Belgians posted up in major European cities last week this amazing poster, three feet high and adorned with the Belgian tricolor...
...Brussels the indomitable tradesmen of the Belgian Licensed Victualers' Association calmly announced that they had had 100,000 posters printed and secretly distributed throughout Europe. Their purpose: to force the Belgian Parliament to lift the ban forbidding a licensed victualer to sell spirits or even keep a bottle in the house in case of illness. ''That prohibition is ruining our business." declared a spokesman for the Association. 'If we are to be ruined let all Belgium suffer too! If we can entirely eliminate the tourist trade Parliament is responsible...
...Belgium most tourists find prices attractively cheap, seldom notice the peculiarities of Belgium's liquor control system which drives many a native frantic. Only in the case of Belgians returning home do Belgian customs men search mercilessly for smuggled bottles...
...over, Chief Landau hastened from Holland to Belgium, was in time to see the retreat of the German Army. There he met the members of his own little army of Belgian patriots, most of whom he had never seen. A group of Belgian professional men, bankers and the nobility, organized by an engineer and a professor, calling themselves "La Dame Blanche," had been his most valuable assistants. Greeting them was "the most dramatic moment of my life...