Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incidentally, your article fails to mention that well-known cousin to the gremlin, the "Hopschneider," who lives on the ski trails in Switzerland and Canada, and emerges suddenly from behind trees in order to cross the skis of runners as they go by. As you dig yourself out and disentangle your limbs, their squeaky laughter can be heard echoing through the pines...
Descendant of an old Virginia family, Kippy Tuck, now 51, has spent most of his life in Europe. (His father was, for a quarter century, presiding judge of the Mixed Tribunal at Cairo.) Kippy went to school in Switzerland and Germany, returned to the U.S. to graduate from Dartmouth (1913). Then he began a long odyssey through U.S. consulates, legations and embassies, became equally at home in the salons of Paris, international cocktail parties in Geneva, the polo fields of Budapest...
...Switzerland an eyewitness fresh from Germany told the Schweizer Bauzeitung: "Air raids have had a terrible effect. Western Germany just celebrated its 10,000th alert. Recently some towns had alerts 36 nights running. Everywhere you see destroyed houses, while factories show little damage. Factories are repaired immediately after attack, but houses are left in ruins to be rebuilt after the war. Despite all Germany's military successes, there is no trace of confidence among the people. All they want is peace." The German civilian Luftschutz (air defense) organization had changed its name to Selbstschutz (self-defense), was conscripting everyone...
Until 1935 there was little to trouble a knobbly-kneed schoolgirl, Tsahai, about her father's rambling stone house or his loose-woven kingdom in Ethiopia. Going back home from school in Switzerland or France, she noticed unhappily the filth and disease which flourished on the ignorance of her father's people. And there was her father's household law, confining her to hidden rooms of the palace. But there were compensations...
Died. Guglielmo Ferrero, 71, famed Italian historian (The Grandeur & Decadence of Rome, The Reconstruction of Europe), veteran antiFascist; in Geneva, Switzerland. Admired by Teddy Roosevelt (for his pointed parallels between the politics of Caesar and Tammany), Ferrero launched his world reputation with a U.S. lecture tour in 1908. Under Mussolini, his gift for such parallelisms led first to his "quarantine" in Italy, then his expulsion...