Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waging a last desperate struggle, with picketers instead of stilettos, to keep motor boat exhausts from barking all night at the inoffensive Venation moon. This malady of tourists gangrene which has brought railroads in to Venice and made Paris mostly English, is attacking the simple yodelers of the Swiss mountains...
Pupils. Among Freud's pupils are such men as Adler, Jung, Stekel. It is important to note that Freud quarreled with each. Perhaps the most interesting is Carl Gustave Jung, a Swiss, who became a sort of official expounder of all Freud's ideas; Freud's devotion to him was said to be "altogether exceptional." This state of affairs was not to last long "for Jung has a proud stomach" and he parted company with Freud, to become, like his master, a luminary of the psychoanalytical world...
...Hungarian financial reconstruction was read by Commissioner General Jeremiah Smith Jr., of Boston. It was a long recital of the success of the League's plan to put Hungary on her feet. Points made by Mr. Smith: currency inflation definitely ended; stock of exchange had risen from one million Swiss francs to 90 million in the space of a few months; budget deficit for year ending June 30 had been covered; adverse trade balance reduced by 40%. Hungary should be self-supporting at the end of two years...
...Jungfrau, a Swiss scientist claimed to have seen flashes of yellow and green light from the planet, which might have been flashes of sunlight on mountain peaks...
...Stamford Bridge, England, British women outleaped, outran, outthrew their French, Belgian, Czecho-Slovakian, Swiss and Italian sisters in an international track meet. World's records went splintering on every hand. Mary Lines, "Paddock Feminine," who starred for England in the first Women's Olympiad at Monte Carlo in 1922, won three events. Her countrywoman, Miss Trickey, won the 1,000-metre run. A French giantess won the discus throw and shot-put. Italy's alibi for finishing last was that four of her most active athletes were halted at the Italian border...