Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quick rebuttal came from the Swiss in reply to a Chicago dispatch saying that the U. S. Olympic Committee had voted 66 to 6 to withdraw all American entries from the Games if the AHA team was allowed to compete...
Everybody else was singing it before Americans even heard of it. It began 35 years ago as the Swiss Cradle Song, written by an Australian. Then a Maori woman who liked the tune made up some words to go with it, sang it at a Maori festival. The natives picked it up; so did white New Zealanders who mistakenly thought it an old Maori folksong...
...impresses some people," he said deprecatingly, when I pointed to the Phi Beta Kappa key attached to the chain of a fancy Swiss pocket watch he kept lying on the desk to time our progress through History 32. "It's what a man knows that counts, not just the marks he can get"--a rather starting bit of philosophy to hear from a professional tutor. When I read him a list of six topics which Professor Ropp had given out as probable exam questions, Cramer said, "We don't want to aim for any particular topics. This man Ropp fooled...
...Swiss Composer Arthur Honegger had successfully set to music everything from Greek legends (Antigone) to steam engines (Pacific 231) and sports (Rugby). Then he bit off a chunk that many a musical better-Verdi, Gounod and Tchaikovsky, among others-had broken a tooth on. He began work on an oratorio on Joan of Arc. French Poet (and onetime Ambassador to the U.S.) Paul Claudel provided a mystical, introspective text...
When the Mountain Fell, a tale of utter simplicity and symbolic depth by the late Swiss Novelist Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, reminded some readers and writers of the value of perfected style. So did The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster, England's dean of novelists...