Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, as Pope Pius XI peered out at the pinky snow, he could look forward to leaving the Vatican next winter should he so choose. He might even go to Switzerland for a little decorous tobogganing...
...stole it. Anita, meanwhile, a fattish prima donna, went from Max, the queasy composer who took his inspiration glacier-gazing, to Daniello, back to Max again. She it was, unwittingly, who escaped with the stolen violin concealed in her banjo case. But Jonny followed her to Switzerland for it, jumped in her window one morning, recovered it and had it for his jazz until Daniello recognized its tone over the radio and set the police on him. Desperately then Jonny tried for escape. He bought a ticket for Amsterdam. He would go back home and "never leave the dear White...
Oscar Nathieson, who 20 years ago was amateur speed-skating champion of the world, established a world's record at Davos, Switzerland, by skating 500 metres in 43 sec. In Davos also, Ballangrud, Norwegian skater, skated 5,000 metres in 8:24½, a world's record...
...honor, last week, at a reception in her late husband's birthplace, No. 28 East 20th St., Manhattan. Plans were announced to raise a $250,000 endowment fund for the maintenance of the Roosevelt birthplace; a $50,000 mortgage on the house was ceremoniously burned. Then, she sailed for Switzerland to visit her son-in-law and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. Richard Derby...
...thence to South Africa; Dec. 1923?World Tour. (New York. Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Naples and home); Dec. 1924?Cuba: May 1925?Italy; Jan. 1926?Yucatan (to study Mayans); Jan. 1927?South America (Bolivia, Montevideo, Argentina, etc.); Jan. 1928? Panama. Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala; Aug. 1928 ?Europe; Jan. 1929?Switzerland...