Word: farflung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their support was chiefly moral. But more concrete help was on its way to Great Britain from her farflung Empire. Australia, which already had five divisions under arms, organized a sixth division of 20,000 men, named Major General Sir Thomas A. Blarney to command...
When he died insane in 1918, Cesar Ritz, onetime Swiss goatherd was the most famed hotelman in Europe, had given his name to 19 farflung hotels. In Manhattan last week arrived his widow, Madame Cesar Ritz, 72, who still helps run the Ritz in Paris. Mme Ritz had come to see the World's Fair, survey the latest American hotel methods, master the art of preparing ice cream sodas, which "we do so badly in Paris." She stayed a few days at the Waldorf, then moved on to the Ritz-Carlton...
...blood." Pius XI was at pains to send his closest collaborator on many missions, often by airplane-to Eucharistic Congresses in Buenos Aires in 1934 and Budapest in 1938, to Lisieux, France in 1935, to the U. S. on a transcontinental "vacation" tour in 1936.* Thanks to these farflung travels, the new Pope was known to immense numbers of people, Catholic and non-Catholic. The world saw in Pope Pius XII a Catholic linguist (he speaks nine tongues, most of them fluently); a Catholic diplomat, who would steer the Church's course with astuteness and delicacy; a Catholic scholar...
...farflung newspaper career already the envy of many a workaday reporter, Paul Gallico last week began another chapter. Back from his snuggery-workshop on the English Channel, Writer Gallico entered the employ of William Randolph Hearst's International News Service. A high-priced super roving reporter, Paul Gallico, whose loyal readership followed him from the sport section of the New York News to the Saturday Evening Post, took as his assignment the Philadelphia child-murder case, described the arraignment of a 19-year-old girl defendant with true sob-stuff...
This week Britain will take another hitch in the communications belt of her farflung Empire when, for no extra charge, all first-class mail between the colonies and the mother country will begin to be carried by air. Exception is Canada, no scheduled North Atlantic service yet being in effect. To haul the estimated 20 tons of mail which will leave London each week, Imperial Airways, long equipped with huge old rattletraps, has acquired a fleet of 28 Short Brothers four-motored flying boats. Last week the Empire's great new airmail network hit a snag before it could...