Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undiminished interest for the scientific dilettante. Rare speciments of Dante's work are no less attractive to the dabbler in literature, but it is for the sake of some rare editions of John Ruskin's works and for seven original watercolors, most of them executed by him in the Swiss Alps, that the Vagabond is chiefly drawn to Widener...
...Swiss-type Civil Code is supplemented by a new German-type Commercial Code; and a Penal Code based on that of Italy has been promulgated. The immense and revolutionary project of scrapping outworn Turkish law (based on the Koran) and substituting Western statutes thus stands today, accomplished...
...Nashville, Tenn., to sell the U. S. mail service to Nashvillians. The emanations of Dr. O'Callaghan addressed to "Mr. Nashville Businessman" ran on exuberantly, telling of Cyrus the Great of Persia who had " a snappy mail service," quoting Gibbon on Rome, explaining the function of the Swiss yodelers, glorifying the Pony Express and the air mail. Last September, Dr. O'Callaghan held a pageant to exhibit his mighty works-with "an original, Historical and Educational Cavalcade of Floats, Men and Costumes, with Lessons on Correct Method of Addressing Mail Matter." Dr. O'Callaghan has been rewarded...
John J. Bernet was born in 1868, son of a Swiss blacksmith. He too learned the blacksmith's trade and became the best horseshoer in Farnham, N. Y. But locomotive smoke smelled better than forge smoke. Young John got himself a job as a telegrapher...
...takes diversion breeding Suffolk Punch horses and Brown Swiss cattle on his stock farm in Libertyville, 111. When the Chicago Opera Company, which long had rested on the weary shoulders of Mr. Harold F. McCormick and his wife, the now Mrs. Rockefeller-McCormick, came to Mr. Insull for salvation, the yearly deficit was a million dollars. Now it is $350,000. Directors predict that Samuel Insull will make it pay. Rarely, when he is in Chicago, does he miss a performance. In the entr'acte he goes behind to encourage the singers and they in turn speak...