Word: haring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreign correspondence of greatest distinction, the Pulitzer committee decided, was that contributed to the New York Times by able Anne O'Hare McCormick. For 15 years a Tzmeswoman in Europe, Mrs. McCormick last year was given the distinction of being the first of her sex to be seated at the Times's official editorial council table...
...last week's prime news copy, but Italian forces were becoming most active in the White drive to secure Malaga and Il Duce loomed large in Spanish eyes. At Rome that sympathetic female correspondent to whom so many statesmen find it easy to talk, Mrs. Anne O'Hare McCormick, had a long session on Spain with Mussolini. Crisply he said that Europe's first task must be to end Spain's war, that no other European problem of consequence can be solved until that has been accomplished, that Spain is potentially much more apt to give...
Incognito as "the Countess & Count von Sternberg," they had brought 21 pieces of luggage including two gramophones, six pairs of skis. Their Royal Highnesses publicly drank whiskey & soda at teatime, insisted on Polish dishes (item: hare in cream with beets) in the dining room. While Bridegroom Bernhard ski-jored behind a sleigh, Bride Juliana skied on a practice slope before a trainer and 47 cameramen, good-naturedly taking frequent spills and crying the only two Polish words she had learned: "Don't photograph!" Considering how ably the world press can hound romantic couples when it wants to, world press...
...delved a little deeper into the history of venery he might have learned that the "Blessing of Hounds" is a very ancient custom, handed down from the days when the stag, the roedeer, the boar, and the hare were the chief sources of supply for the winter larder, and their capture depended very largely upon the qualifications of the hounds which brought them down. Similarly, in certain European countries the blessing of crops and fields at the time of sowing, of vineyards, and of fishing vessels still prevails...
...Renaud, famed in every port of the world for spectacular rescues carried out with a specially adapted Russian icebreaker and a hand-picked crew of 30 who stay on 24-hour duty, functioning with the same perfection as the Cyclone's, expensive mechanical equipment. Minor characters are stony, hare-lipped First Mate Tanguy, who broods over his wife's infidelities on shore, damns the invention of radio because it enables her to time his return; and Boatswain Kerlo, a man with a mysterious aristocratic past, who drinks heavily on shore, reformed once and took to reading...