Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albert and Elizabeth, King & Queen of the Belgians, carrying cold lunch in a knapsack, went with other tourists by cogwheel railway from Grindelwald to Jung-frau-joch (11,340 ft.) in the Swiss Alps, explored glaciers, descended unrecognized...
...Swiss. Two Swiss flyers, Oscar Kaesar, 22, and Kurt Luescher, 21, neither of them a navigator, flew from Lisbon, Portugal, toward New York last fortnight. A German steamer saw them near the Azores. No one has seen them since. Total number of flyers lost trying to fly the Atlantic westward...
Sleek Frenchmen, great-throated Germans, hearty Englishmen, voluble Belgians, blond Swedes, good-natured Austrians, ill-tailored Czechs, pompous Italians, hungry Letts, solid Dutchmen, bland Danes, swarthy Poles, incomprehensible Lithuanians, dour Spaniards, excitable Serbs, fish-eating Finns, bony Norwegians, polyglot Swiss, egregious Estonians and 100% Americans-all these to the number of 4,000 assembled last week in Berlin. Greatest of them all were the Americans, 1,000 in number. They were most plentiful because they considered themselves and are considered the world's foremost exponents of the meeting's subject-advertising...
...Again. The gorilla and the chimpanzee were glum, the 600 canaries fidgety, the 19 passengers restless, the imprisoned stowaway morose?aboard the Graf Zeppelin as she rushed across the Atlantic last week on the second transoceanic commercial air voyage. She reached Lakehurst, N. J., from Friedrichshafen, at the German-Swiss border in 95 hrs., 23 mins. without trouble, having averaged 60 miles an hour during most of the trip,?about twice as fast as the S. S. Bremen. Passengers, after an agreeably brief customs and immigration inspection, gloated over the relative uniqueness of their air travel...
...throng. When the seminarians had all left the church there were silver trumpetings from the portico. Over the singing and stir of thousands, boomed the bells of Rome, echoing from the Seven Hills. A confusion of shouting arose: "Viva il Papa! Viva il Papa!" Down the steps tramped the Swiss Guards with glittering breastplates and halberds, down strolled a vivid mass of ecclesiasts. Two long rows of Cardinals followed, dressed in scarlet, heads bent, hands clasped in prayer...