Word: luxembourgers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgium, dodging the expense for over a year, last week decided abruptly to continue across her own territory, right up to the North Sea, the "Maginot Wall" of steel and concrete pillboxes which guards France from the Swiss border to Luxembourg...
Prince-Consort Felix of Luxembourg...
...Verdun!" Behind Belgium and Luxembourg, whom France trusts, Marshal Foch and General Weygand thought it sufficient to scatter only small forts, backed by what they decided to call '"Flying Fortresses." These, a post-War innovation, consist of trainloads of motorized trench digging and barbed-wire stringing machines of Gargantuan size. In three days each "Flying Fortress" is supposed to turn out a complete system of front line trenches for the sector which it covers and within a week all the "Flying Fortresses" working together can dig France in from the North Sea to the Sarre...
...During the three years they spent together in Anticoli. Italy he drove his artistic mentor, tempera mental Maurice Sterne, to the verge of exhaustion by forcing him to keep the same rigorous hours. Best known Bruce canvas. Panorama of San Francisco, hangs in the San Francisco Stock Exchange. The Luxembourg has another of his landscapes...
...psychological tragedies, about as intelligent and depressing as they come. Best-selling Sister Anne dashes off entertaining stuff about far-from-highbrow worldlings. Her conversational style is growing on her to such an extent that she no longer bothers very much to punctuate: " 'We are heading for the Luxembourg gardens, will you sit there with me for a moment, I'll drive you home, I bet that you dine at half-past seven...