Word: edens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when a Briton discovered oil in Mosul (whence the word muslin), not far from the legendary site of the Garden of Eden, in the shadow of Mesopotamia's Kurdish Hills. Then the slippery Sultans of Turkey ruled, as Arab provinces, what is now Irak. The European oil companies were so greedy to get the Sultan's oil that they checkmated one another's efforts until June 1914. The line-up then was Britain, The Netherlands and Germany. Months later the War started, eventually eliminating Buyer Germany and Seller Turkey. After the War the double-crossing was resumed...
Spinster Dickinson War-nursed all over what is now Yugoslavia. She shares the enthusiasm of hundreds of Britons, Germans and Americans who have discovered that rustic Yugoslavia, cheap, romantic and wildly beautiful, would be a vacation Eden, if only the food were not so coarse, the sheets so grey, the inside plumbing so rare. Last week indomitable Miss Dickinson had undertaken the flotation of The Wanderer's Shelters Ltd. and was busy designing and ordering hostels and furniture. Said Pioneer Dickinson: "Our small hotels and guest houses will be dotted over the lesser known, completely unspoiled rural districts...
...last spring stating that the frontier of the Empire is now on the Rhine was the first unmistakable sign of the changed atmosphere. More recently the provision of British troops for service in the Saar and the vigorous policy pursued at Geneva by the Lord Privy Seal, Captain Anthony Eden, have merely emphasized the new policy. England has definitely re-entered European politics...
Three years ago the National Government contained two white-haired boys in important Under-Secretaryships. One was Captain Anthony Eden at the Foreign Office. The other was Major Hore-Belisha in the Board of Trade. Both are very dapper, very efficient young men, with imposing records at Oxford and in the Army. When Major Hore-Belisha was promoted to Minister of Transport most of his friends were afraid that he was being laid upon a very stuffy shelf. They need not have worried. Leslie Hore-Belisha, freed of the self-abasement expected of an Under-Secretary, has proved...
...Hear! Hear!" cried the House as Captain Anthony Eden announced for the Foreign Office that, while Dictator Kemal's Government absolutely refuses to apologize to His Majesty's Government, Turkey has paid £2,000 ($10,000) voluntarily to the family of slaughtered Surgeon Lieut. Robinson...