Word: swiss-born
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...their mantillas fighting for title to a bullfighter. One nobleman explained his kindness to his servants by inquiring: "How can I be sure my real father is not among them?" There were riots every day in Madrid except during the Siesta. Across the Pyrenees in France, Voltaire and a Swiss-born neurotic called Jean Jacques Rousseau were mouthing strange phrases that were to mean a revolution, Napoleon, and the conquest of Spain. But in Madrid and throughout the land they reveled and stabbed and hoped only to see the morrow. Francisco Goya was born in 1746 of a remotely noble...
...Bishops, Senators, wrestlers, criminals . . . everybody give psychiatrists their brains for dissecting after death," last week suggested Professor Adolf Meyer, Johns Hopkins' famed Swiss-born psychiatrist. Professor Meyer. 67, a bearded didactic Zwinglian* called it "a crime against civilization that we let any brain pass unexamined when it has done its life work...