Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ministry of Defense will spend $600,000,000, according to budget estimates published last week. Secret, France's defense program is nevertheless known to consist of a series of fortresses, largely subterranean, strung like pearls along almost her entire land frontier from the English Channel to the Mediterranean. Subways connect large key forts with smaller posts so that men and munitions may be rushed from fort to fort beneath the poppies of a smiling countryside...
Chief obstruction this time is Vial, youngish interior decorator, whose cottage neighbors Colette's on the Mediterranean shore. Here she has retired with her dog. her cats to watch the hours pass of her declining day. Swimming parties, summer diversions with her neighbors fill whatever gaps tending her animals, her garden, or her memories may leave. But Vial...
...rest to his summer home at Cocherel, near St. Germain. "But it is too damp and cold there for me to stay, now that I am at liberty to go elsewhere," he said. "I shall buy a little boat . . . and go sailing in the sunshine on the blue Mediterranean Sea." Friends of Brer Briand noted a marked improvement in his health and spirits...
...Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, in New York, was born in Canada, and was educated at St. Andrews College, Toronto, and at Loyola University. During the war Douglas held the rank of Major in His Majesty's forces, and following the war, devoted seven years to the study of Mediterranean and Balkan problems; Douglas has resided or travelled in Morocco, Egypt, Rhodes, Patmos, Athens, and Helgrade...
First cruise from a U. S. port was conducted by Hamburg-American Packet Co. in 1890, when S. S. Augusta Victoria sailed from New York to the Mediterranean with 225 passengers. Since then many a hard-pressed steamship company has turned to cruises to take up the slack in its regular passenger traffic. Last week 260 cruises planned for the 1931-32 season proved to be too many. Seventeen trips were cancelled, more were likely to be abandoned later. Withdrawn were seven West Indies sailings of Red Star's Belgenland, one each of Cunard's Carinthia and Caledonia, two Mediterranean...