Word: orients
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite sport of Balkan pickpockets is to steal upon the Orient Express at night stops, fish passengers' baggage expertly from open windows with long hooks. Such thefts are counted among the common risks of mid-European travel, but to rob the mail car of the Orient Express is different. In Belgrade sly winks were tipped. Yugoslavs suspected their own government of wanting something out of the Orient Express mail car and getting...
...Orient was approaching Zagreb, six masked men ducked from a vestibule into the mail car, trussed its French guardian, locked him in the cabinet, and methodically went through eleven sacks of mail. What, if anything, they abstracted remained a mystery. When the Orient reached Zagreb the Frenchman kicked loose, raised an alarm, but the bandits had vanished...
Most luxurious of all Wagons-Lits trains are now its all-steel, so-called ''Pullmans," sumptuous sitting-room cars with chairs and tables, first introduced on the Paris-London Golden Arrow. But to Europeans the train of glamor remains the Orient Express, weathered and creaky though many of its sleepers...
...Orient Express" most Europeans mean loosely any one of several interconnecting trains which link Paris and Berlin with Athens, Istanbul and Bucharest across a middle zone comprising Vienna, Venice, Budapest, Belgrade and Sofia. Of these interconnecting Grands Express the most typical is the Simplon Orient Express on which it costs $171 First Class and $121 Second (there is no third) to span the 1.886 miles between Paris and Istanbul in 2½ days. Including all stops and fooling around at eight frontiers, the Simplon Orient nonetheless averages 30 m.p.h...
Seven years ago Wagons-Lits bought Thomas Cook & Son with the result that on the Orient Express one can now escape the necessity of paying for things in seven kinds of money. Buying ticket and meal coupons or books in Paris at Wagons-Lits-Cook's opposite the Madeleine, you hop a taxi to the smoky Gare du Nord, step aboard the Simplon Orient at 5:53 p. m.. wake up next morning just as you are diving under the Alps through the famed Simplon Tunnel and breakfast as you swish by the Italian lakes and Stresa...