Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commander on the Wilmington. The following year he was assigned to duty at the Naval Academy, which post he left in 1918 to become District Commander at Brest, France. Later the same year he was sent as a U. S. representative to the Prisoner of War Conference at Berne, Switzerland...
Service for Ladies (Adolph Menjou). The most perfect headwaiter in Paris, whom even kings know by name, goes vacationing to a winter sports colony in Switzerland, in order to be near the lady of his love-at-first-sight. There a thousand trifling circumstances force it upon his uneasy conscience that a headwaiter, though the apogee of elegance, is hardly high enough to reach for an heiress. Humbled for, the first time, he trudges back to his dining-room. There she discovers him. Being a democratic U. S. girl, the heiress graciously trots into the kitchen after the dejected...
...necessity was established later the same year, at a convention of the Episcopal Church in Cincinnati. The man who then proposed a world conference on Faith & Order lived to see such a conference actually held, after 17 years of preparation, and to preside over it as chairman, at Lausanne, Switzerland, the past three weeks...
...perhaps the first time since the ascension of Tsar Boris III (1918), His Majesty managed to slip out of Sofia last week en route for Switzerland before rumors could be started that he went in search of a bride. Year after year correspondents have cried "Wolf! Wolf!" to the effect that he was going to marry this princess or that, whenever Bachelor Tsar Boris has set out for his annual vacation (TIME, July 26, 1926, et ante). This year the Tsar resolved to outwit rumor mongers...
Princess Eudoxia, think Bulgarians, needs far more vacationing than she ever takes. Therefore, approval was general last week, as Tsar and Princess sped northward through the Balkans to a quiet resort in Switzerland...