Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time, a small goitre, which she called her "potato," had made its appearance on her throat, severely cutting down her respiration. However, she started on a European tour, reduced her price to $2,200. She had her usual successes in London and Prague but in Budapest one night an audience astonished and dismayed her by booing and catcalling her Violetta in La Traviata. To newshawks she presently explained that she had caught a cold, announced that she could not buck Europe s prejudice against her high prices, canceled the rest of her tour. Since then, indefatigably carrying...
...ATLAS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY?J. F. Horrabin ? Knopf ($1.50). Valuable handbook of maps, together with brief expositions, showing the significant changes in European boundaries from the Second to the 20th Century...
Just before the War he moved on to Manhattan and James Gordon Bennett's Herald. In the War Harris won the rank of captain of military intelligence, returned to Paris as editor and general manager of the Herald's European edition. When the Heralds were sold to Frank Munsey in 1920, Harris drifted back to his native...
Among the savage Loeboes of Sumatra a child fell ill. When it failed to improve, the muttering family repaired to a stone beneath the house which seemed to mark a grave, poured hot water on the stone. A European observer who witnessed this ceremony inquired its significance. The natives told him that the stone marked the place where the child's afterbirth had been buried in a rice pot a few months before, that the baby's continued illness was obviously due to the fact that ants were stinging the afterbirth, that the hot water would drive...
Meantime branches of Travelers Bank in Nice, London and other European cities had closed their doors, and agitated French magistrates, mindful of I'affaire Stavisky, issued a shower of warrants for almost anyone named Neidecker. But the Neidecker exodus was complete for already steaming westward was another ship bearing Bankster Neidecker's wife, his two children, his mother, his two authentic brothers and one of his automobiles...