Word: sorel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sorel, Quebec the freighter Königsberg, cargoing zinc oxide to Canadian consignees, received instructions, as did many other German vessels, to full-steam home before she could unload. Defying Canadian Revenue Department orders to stay put until she had done so, she cut her mooring lines, nosed off without warning. But, some 100 miles down the St. Lawrence, a police boat overhauled her. Its officers, acting for consignees who claimed they had paid up but had not received their oxide, held the Konigsberg's skipper on larceny charges...
Tokyo was treated last week to some-thing as exciting as though Paris had learned during the World War that Sarah Bernhardt, Cecile Sorel or Mistinguett had eloped to Germany with a French admirer of Kaiser Wilhelm. A topflight Japanese stage & screen star is Miss Yoshiki Okada, billed soon to appear in a leading Tokyo theatre. For a time she was the Viscountess Takeuchi, recently was said to have taken as her lover a Japanese Communist writer, Ryokichi Sugimoto. Last week this pair were reported out sleighing on the snow-covered island of Sakhalin, half Japanese, half Soviet. Suddenly...
...Ritz Bar last week smart Paris credited Mme Cecile Sorel, aged warhorse of the Comedie Franchise, and Miss Joan Warner, Pennsylvania-born "Poetess of Naked Rhythm" (TIME, July 22. et seq.), each with a new and magnificent...
Estimates of the permanent value of Pareto's contribution to human thought range from the extravagant claims of disciples who rank him with Newton and Aristotle to the deprecations of Socialists who consider him a borrower from Marx and Sorel and damn him as the philosopher of Italian Fascism, whose appearance he predicted. Although Mussolini was inspired by Pareto, and made him a Senator, Translator Livingston doubts that Pareto approved of Mussolini or Fascismo, feels that his remarks when Mussolini took power were the expressions of a prophet's "I told you so!'' satisfaction...
...Canadian maneuver and ran for office from two separate districts (expecting to resign from one or the other after election). He was defeated in both. Quebec's election day had its Chicago aspects. In Montreal 232 people were arrested. A man was killed in an argument in Sorel. Hooligans wrecked an anti-Houde newspaper office. Voting booths were raided, ballot boxes stolen. Municipal constables and provincial police arrested each other. Worried election officers imported phlegmatic Indians from up-country to telegraph the results...