Word: belgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Riddle has been a dog lover from youth. His father, a hearse manufacturer in Ravenna, Ohio, bred bloodhounds; Riddle himself owns a Belgian sheep dog and a Brittany spaniel. Max broke into journalism as turf editor for Scripps-Howard in Cleveland, but horses were not his meat. Invited by the Press in 1939 to write about dogs, Riddle has since expanded into kindred fields. Besides his dog column he writes another devoted to all manner of animals, is an authority on most zoo animals, several kinds of lizards, and the diet of pet snakes (start with raw hamburger and worm...
...great victory. "I am fighting for an idealistic case," he declared. "Everybody says that I make a lot of money. Anybody who says that to my face will find my bloodhounds after him." But what if the International Court of Justice decides that Lots 91 and 92 are Belgian as Sooi claims? "If Holland loses the case," says Burgomaster de Grauw, "it means that inhabitants paid taxes to the wrong country, that some people were never born, and that others died quite illegally. The complications will be enormous: we may end up rewriting the history of the last century...
...businessmen, the newest problem at home and abroad is foreign competition. Inland Steel's President John F. Smith Jr. told stockholders: "A Peoria house builder can buy a keg of Belgian nails for a dollar less than from a local mill''-even after shouldering shipping and insurance costs and paying the U.S. tariff...
...When Belgian-born Author José André Lacour outlined his Death in That Garden, he found himself at a writer's disadvantage. The setting was the upper reaches of Amazonia, but Lacour had never been there. So he left his home near Paris and spent three months in Brazil; including ten days on the Amazon-though quite comfortably on a friend's yacht. When his novel was published, one French critic flatly hailed it as "one of the masterworks of his generation." It is not that, but it is still one of the grimmest stories in some...
...people escape, board a small native boat and head into the jungle. One is a priest, another a former German army captain, who subsists mainly on the bitterness of his country's defeat. There is a French Jew at the end of his rope, a money-adoring Belgian, who is accompanied by his eleven-year-old deaf-mute daughter and the French prostitute he is engaged to marry. With them goes the commander of the soldiers, fleeing a situation beyond his control...