Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beginning in 540 A. D. and lasting some 50 years, another plague surged around the Mediterranean Sea. Deaths in Constaninople reached...
...rain drizzles outside. Upon finding a certain notice in the paper, she and a kindred spirit at the club develop an April hankering that is the reverse of Mr. Browning's-Oh, to be in Italy! For a few pounds they can rent a fabulous little castle on the Mediterranean. There is a thrifty counting of shillings, and at length an ecstatic leavetaking of foggy streets and captious husbands. Two noble ladies have been corralled to join them at the castle and share expenses. When the eager housewives arrive, the gentry are already firmly ensconced in the most desirable rooms...
Elsewhere. The Scandinavian countries, their currencies hitched to Britain's sterling, had a somewhat better year than last. Many a tourist circled the Continent by way of Scandinavia, Russia and Italy. Egypt, where Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo is an international landmark, benefited by Mediterranean cruises. Only country actually short of hotels is Greece. C. Liabratoulos told the sad-faced conference last week that his government would give a 20,000,000 drachma bonus (about $440,000) to the first promoter who would build a chain of modern hotels throughout that ancient land...
Over three long centuries ago, in the year 1590, there gathered in a little cathedral town, overlooking the rippling blue expanse that is the Mediterranean, a little group of most learned men. From France and Germany, and from Rome and Mycenae they had come to this, the little seaport of Pisa...
...Stavisky parallels were easy to find. Chief Inspector Fressard of the Lille police received threats of violent death unless he dropped the case. Two Paris shopkeepers, wanted by the police to tell what they knew about Paul Mariani & friends, were found shot dead in a compartment aboard the Paris-Mediterranean Express...