Word: finlander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Landauer has other fancies: She gathers old writing paper, bookplates, lottery tickets, railroad passes, war letters, wine labels. Her "flying" songs come from England, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Russia, Finland, Japan. The oldest is "The Balloon," sung in London in 1782. Most famed is "Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine" (1910). But not to be scorned is "The Air Ship Waltz for Piano or Organ" (1891), dedicated to the Married Ladies' Musicale of Greensburg, Ind., or "Take Me Down to Squantum, I Want to See Them Fly," composed especially for the Boston Aero Meet of 1912, or "Since...
Since cocky little Finland has not the slightest fear of Japan but hates and fears Japan's No. 1 enemy Russia, Finnish Army officers prepared to give Captain Nishimura every scrap of secret information on how to keep troops and war gear efficiently in action at temperatures down...
More Japanese were killed by Chinese weather than by Chinese bullets during the cocky little Empire's sub-zero conquest of Manchukuo (TIME, Jan. 4, 1932). Last week in Finland arrived the Japanese General Staff's noncommittal Captain Nishimura. "I shall stay here two years to study conditions," said he, shivering...
...natives, Germany is Deutschland, Egypt is Misr, Greece is Hellas, Finland is Suomi, China is Chung-Hua Min-Kuo ("The Middle Flowery Republic") and officially trilingual Switzerland is Schweiz, Suisse or Svizzera...
...other War debtors except Finland...