Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gathering. Crossing the boundaries of their fatherlands, legislators last week made their way towards Washington. Ex-Chancellor Josef Wirth, of Germany, lately resigned from his party (TIME, Sept. 7, Germany), was among the first arrivals. Frenchmen, Germans, Englishmen, Italians, Swiss, Rumanians, Austrians, Czechs, Latvians, Lithuanians, Serbs, Swedes, Poles, Irish, Magyars, Belgians, Bulgarians, Canadians, Egyptians, Finns, Dutchmen, Norwegians, Danes were on their...
...cargo of "Swiss mountaineers, young ladies in riding habits, and young; ladies without riding habits or much of anything else," all of which had been touched by the lips of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm, arrived last week in the U. S. They were human figures carved exquisitely upon 70 pipes once belonging to the former Emperor, and recently acquired by Henry W. Faulhaber of Pittsburgh. They were valued...
...days of his education over, he repaired, still at a tender age, to Switzerland where, to earn his living and pay his way through Lausanne University, he became a manual laborer. Subsequently, his revolutionary activities resulted in his being evicted from one Swiss canton after another; and, when he tried his fortune at journalism in Austria, he rapidly met a like fate at the hands of Emperor Franz Josef's soldiers...
...putted only 23 times, scored a 60 over the Tenison links. This shattered Walter Hagen's "U. S. low-score record" of 62, hung up in Florida two years ago. The "world's record," a 56 credited to George Duncan of England for a round in the Swiss Open Championship of 1913, still stood...
Through the gusty streets of Edinburgh, where (except for U. S. trippers, itinerant golfers and English merchants seeking financial advice) you seldom see aught but Scotsmen, there walked last week a Chinaman and a Swede, a Dane and an Italian, a Swiss, a Greek, a Frenchman, a Hungarian, a Belgian, a Czecho-Slovakian, a German, a Persian. Americans were there. Colonials from Canada, India, Rhodesia, were there; swarthy sons, also, of Spain and of Hayti. Almost all pedagogs, they awaited the gavel-tap of the Rt. Hon. Sir John Gilmour, His Majesty's Secretary for Scotland, indicative of the opening...