Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nurse Emily Stewart bustled about, last week, in a large, bright hotel suite at Geneva, Switzerland, tending a sparkling-eyed gentleman of 84. Her charge, she knew, had been Secretary of War of the U. S. way back in the days of President William McKinley. In fact the gentleman is so venerable that today the new U.S. Secretary of State?Henry Lewis Stimson?is a man who used to be a junior partner in the oldster's law firm. Therefore last week Nurse Emily Stewart felt a great sense of responsibility as she tended Elihu Root...
...their journey across the Atlantic in the dead of winter, Mr. Root and Nurse Stewart had taken the Italian liner Augustus ("No fog, no ice"), thus circumventing France and Spain, and approaching . Switzerland from its sunny Italian side. As the reward of these precautions efficient Nurse Stewart was able to send her charge forth from his hotel, last week, without even a cold, hale, vigorous and ready to grapple with the statesmen of the League...
...plays Canada first, Japan to meet the winner. England plays Poland. France, the cup holder, waits until the challenge round. Other pairings, as usual, have a musical comedy aspect: Mexico v. Cuba, Austria v. Czechoslovakia, Belgium v. Rumania, Denmark v. Chile, Greece v. Jugoslavia, Norway v. Hungary, Monaco v. Switzerland, Finland v. Egypt, Holland v. Portugal, Germany v. Spain, Ireland v. Italy, Sweden v. South Africa...
...Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, England, France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland...
...year passes. Florence is within a few hours of maternity when a cable comes from Switzerland. Junior, at a fashionable school, is dying of typhoid fever. Walter, distrait, ignoring the living Florence and her unborn child, arranges for a quick trip to Switzerland. He leaves, but not before she has spoken her piece...