Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Line, M. Laval reminded the Chamber, operates not only transatlantic, trans-Mediterranean and Far East services (to French Indo-China) but has pioneered French Morocco as a tourist playground, built in the oases of its deserts a chain of de luxe hotels. With depression striking everywhere, M. Laval found it possible to understand how the French Line has incurred a deficit, asked the Chamber to guarantee in the name of the State a $6,000.000 French Line bond issue. "The Campagnie Generate is not the only navigation company now in trouble," wound up M. Laval. "I might cite...
...builders of the Europa) as the German battle cruiser Goeben. ?Speedy, heavily armored, with innumerable watertight compartments, she was as far ahead of her time as Germany's latest 1931 warship, the pocket battleship Deutschland. At the beginning of the War she slipped through the British and French Mediterranean squadrons to Constantinople, where she was nominally attached to the Turkish Navy as the Sultan Selim...
Exuberantly Mediterranean, dear to the hearts of Young Italy, are these words which open the chorus of the official Fascist anthem. But the accompanying music, though certainly no worse than that of many another patriotic song, is what Variety calls "umpa umpa stuff." It is more singable, more lively than "The Star-Spangled Banner" but immeasurably less musical than "Die Wacht Am Rhein," the Tsarist anthem, or the Haydn tune which the Austrian Empire took for its national hymn. It was natural, then, that the whole world of music should have risen in arms during the last month because...
...They knew how to weave, and probably made their clothing from the wool of their flocks. It is easy to surmise that traders occasionally crossed the plain to the fortress, carrying commodities such as flint and salt, and sometimes rarer things--amber from the distant Baltic, seashells from the Mediterranean, and perhaps, later on, little trinkets of Hungarian copper...
...Mediterranean island of Malta, first colonized by Phoenicians, was given by Emperor Charles V to the Knights of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem on condition that the Knights of St. John would acknowledge Spanish suzerainty by sending him, annually, a falcon. The Knights of St. John, afterward called the Sovereign Order of the Knights of Malta, repulsed 38,500 invading Mohammedans at the siege of Malta in 1565. Later they admitted members of the European nobility into their order. Last week the Knights of Malta, still flourishing, gathered in Rome to elect a Grand Master...