Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the frost-bleared windows of the St. Bernard hospice,* 8,000 feet up in the Great St. Bernard Pass between Switzerland and Italy, the Augustinian canons and their servants on duty there last week watched a train of sleds zigzag its way up the pass from the Swiss side. Snow was deep; wind blistering. None, remarked the canons, but Americans with their quaint inquisitiveness would make such a trip in such weather. Forthwith they sent servants to heat liquids. Other servants they dispatched to assemble the St. Bernard dogs, those great spaniels bred to retrieve humans from the Alpine...
...Founded by St. Bernard of Menthon (11th Century), who for 40 years preached Christianity to Swiss mountain dwellers...
Chocolate. In Europe Suchard's swiss chocolate sells in vast quantities, in the U. S. it has been practically unknown. No sluggards, the manufacturers studied the U. S. market, intending to develop sales there. At the same time H. O. Wilbur & Sons, Inc., famed Philadelphia chocolate makers, were planning to expand. Common intentions led to the formation of a new company, the Wilbur-Suchard Chocolate Co., which has exclusive rights to manufacture Suchard products...
...nice old gentlemen with sidewhiskers, and the nice schoolkids who used to consider "Charley's Aunt" such a thriller. The Copley is now given over to strange and uncouth peasants from far places, and gents who wear caps for headgear, and the tense moment just after Hodolph Krauswitz, the Swiss millionaire, has been found dead in the laundry basket is disturbed by ribald yells from the galleries and the sound of cracking peanut shells. It is a far cry from the old days when "Pygmalion" was such a success that it ran for two weeks, and the politest of Back...
...Federal Reserve banks hold scarcely a fourth-an average so far this year of $244,000,000. But international trade depends upon the fluidity of such paper. English bankers own approximately $1,464,000,000, Dutch bankers between $145,000,000 and $153,000,000, Swiss bankers about $109,000,000. The Federal Reserve restrictions have been as a checkrein on U. S. international bankers. Therefore those who attended the American Acceptance Council meeting in Manhattan last week applauded when Governor Young explained the new leniency of the Federal Reserve Board: "Bankers' acceptances may properly be considered as growing...