Word: riviera
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While gendarmes and French soldiery scoured the Riviera for spawn of Communism cast out by Italy (who must, said Frenchmen, have been the dastards that bombed Legion trains last fortnight), Retiring Commander Howard Paul Savage and some 200 American Legionaries specially picked for their ability to commerce in goodwill, entered the cavernous railroad station at Genoa...
...Oppenheim's homes are on the French Riviera (Cagnes) and in London. Without professing to be a prophet, he notes that he foretold the Boer War in one novel, the World War in 14 novels. He was said to be on a list of Londoners to be shot at once when the Germans should conquer England, whose Intelligence Service he assisted...
...Sempack is the Wellsian spokesman, an angular, hairy length of finely developed humanity who shambles about among the guests of a pretty Mrs. Cynthia Rylands on the Italian Riviera, talking calmly, kindly, but grimly and incessantly about the World State that science will eventually create. A sophisticated ineffectual from the U. S., a Mr. Plantagenet-Buchan, assists the great man by neatly defining as "meanwhiling" the occupation of all people, himself included, who are not consciously accelerating the World State's arrival. A timid Tory, and a British Fascist; a beautiful Lady Catherine; some tennis and bridge players including...
...Cornish Riviera Limited, Paddington to Devonport...
...Author, aged 65, lives in distinguished privacy on the Riviera. She published her first book in the last year of the 19th Century. Descended from Manhattan patricians (Rhinelanders, Schermer-horns), she has always been seriously a gentlewoman. Art and animals are her least intellectual diversions. Henry James was her most important friend...