Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world potent bankers at Baden-Baden, is in English. Delegates from the U. S., Britain, France, Italy and Japan signed without conning over a document with which all, including Dr. Schacht, were excessively familiar. That made six signatures. The seventh?Belgium's?was not affixed last week. The Belgian delegates huffed and withdrew (TIME, Nov. 18) when Basle, Switzerland, was selected instead of Brussels as the bank site...
...Swedish and a Protestant, she at first was booed by rural Belgian prudes because she puffed cigarets in public. Mother of a girl-babe, she is tolerably popular...
Pigmy hippopotamuses, red pigmy buffaloes, pigmy elephants, swift little hairy-horned okapi all lurk in the tangled, humid fastness of the Belgian Congo's deep Itura Forest. By few white men's eyes have these curious creatures ever been seen. Mr. & Mrs. Martin E. Johnson, famed intrepid jungleers, set off last week from Manhattan with eight motor cars, many tons of camp & photographic supplies, two batteries of sound-cinema equipment, two dozen automatic cameras, cinema cameras so that U. S. movie audiences may buzz with wonder at the sound and sight of the Congo's animal wonders...
...Alas, Your Royal Highness," replied a Belgian attaché, "I am afraid she will have already heard the news...
...Just as he stepped from his car at the door of the Italian embassy another car drew up, bearing King Albert and Princess Marie José. The blonde Princess, sobbing wildly, rushed forward and kissed her fiance passionately, to the huge delight of the Belgian populace...