Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke Lambert de Catolica. announces that he is "the point of contact between life and immortality'' and suggests that he join the Duke's house party for a few days, in disguise. When he reappears, Death is wearing the monocle and white breeches of a minor Mediterranean prince. He amuses himself more than the Duke's other guests with macabre little quips like "I have known many four bottle men . . ." and ''Considering your distinction and age it is surprising that Fate has not introduced us before." There are moments of embarrassed silence around...
...person of consequence. When he is a churchman and his biography is subtitled "World Citizen," his identity is not far to seek. The Pope of Rome could be so called, but only in a spiritual sense. The Archbishop of Canterbury sometimes goes yachting with J. P. Morgan in the Mediterranean, but he does not wield much power outside his own Anglican world. Presiding Bishop Perry of the U. S. Episcopal Church and Presbyterian Moderator McDowell are not international figures. But Dr. John Raleigh Mott is. For his work as an organizer and inspirational leader in foreign missions he is famed...
...power for one main reason: that the amount of ocean to be patroiled by Japan is less than one-half that covered by the other two countries. The United States must have ships in both the Atlantic and the Pacific; England must control the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean anyway, and must be able to take care of her possessions in the western hemisphere...
...creator and head of Tri-Continental Corp., one of Wall Street's biggest investment trusts (original capital $100,000,000); 3) a man who likes nothing better than to spend two months of the year as lord of a funny old palace on the shore of the Mediterranean at Portofino, Italy...
...proudest moment was that spring day in 1896 when he won the Liverpool Grand National, a gentleman jockey, on The Soarer. In 1931 he was sent to handle a very fractious horse indeed, the island of Malta. Malta is Britain's most important naval base in the Mediterranean, but Malta is only 60 miles from Italy. Hundreds of Italian emigrants have settled there; most Maltese speak Italian...