Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...separate jails, he to La Sante, she to La Petite Roquette. Since then they have met seldom. They were together briefly last week when police brought them to the Chambers of Magistrate Benon to cross-examine them separately on some new evidence. A package of films brought from Switzerland showed Robert Switz's thumbprints, and two blonde hairs that under a microscope matched hair from, the head of. Marjorie Switz. In Manhattan Mrs. Switz's mother, Mrs. Bertha Tilley, was greatly upset. ''I gave my daughter a Vassar College education, I baked pies for the Woman...
...blames him for the long chain of misfortunes which so unnerved the dancer that he was completely taken in by the mystical doctrines preached to him constantly (his wife says) by two of Diaghilev's henchmen.* Nijinsky's insanity showed itself when he took his family to Switzerland to rest in 1918. He became increasingly moody and irresponsible, took to drawing strange circular designs spotted with eyes, fanciful butterflies with faces like his own, spiders which suggested Diaghilev. He was found one day walking the streets with a great cross on his chest, exhorting the villagers to seek...
...patient he had just operated on was rubber-stamped: "I have been shameless enough to allow myself to be treated by a Jew." Gustav was foolish enough to go back to Germany where he was arrested, clapped in a concentration camp. When the Oppermanns got themselves together again in Switzerland they were no longer solid German citizens: Martin would begin again in England, Edgar in Paris; Berthold was dead; Gustav was dying...
Dodsworth's dramatic impact is cerebral rather than physical. Some of Designer Jo Mielziner's eight crafty settings are repeated to mount 14 scenes on shipboard, in Zenith, Paris, Berlin, Naples, London, Switzerland. Occasional lack of restraint in the direction is well covered by the acting of Fay Bainter and Walter...
...Hoevenberg run is the only place in the U. S. to practice a sport imported from Switzerland for the last Winter Olympic Games. It is a deep trench winding like an ice-lined gutter down the mountainside. Sleds ordinarily reach a maximum speed of about 60 m. p. h., gathering speed by riding high on the banks of its three dangerous turns- Whiteface, Shady Corner, Zig-Zag. The Colgate sled went a little faster than that. When it reached the bottom-still intact despite the missing bolt-its time for four heats was 7:57.31, a new U. S. record...