Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist L'Humanite to the conservative Le Figaro to the right-wing L'Aurore are protesting her coming execution. India's Nehru, Tunisia's Bourguiba, Russia's Voroshilov have appealed for clemency as have writers, labor leaders, professors, bishops and philosophers from Norway to Switzerland to Lebanon...
Slim, Westernized Soraya rushed to Switzerland, probably for a new series of "medical checkups." In Zurich, to conceal her purpose from the press, the green-eyed Queen bought 17 ski costumes, new skis, mufflers, mittens, jaunty knitted caps. But she went skiing only twice, to the dismay of the instructor placed wholly at her disposal. The Queen's German mother played solitaire all day, brooded and developed a facial tic. The Queen ate little, leaving her untouched trays out on the terrace to feed the birds. There were no 7 p.m. phone calls from the Shah, routine on previous...
When a child in Switzerland would come home crying to mother that the teacher had given him or her a paddling, the chances are nine out of ten that mama would follow up with more of same. I suggest Miss Graner work over Roscoe some more...
Colette has just completed a French folklore album, is eying the movies. But she has not permanently abandoned her friend Irma. This week she begins a tour of France, Switzerland and Belgium, and next fall she will go with the show to England to tell Londoners all about the fille d'amour from Coulaincourt who knows that true love is never up for sale...
Suddenly disaster. The Germans break through at Caporetto, and the Italian army dissolves. In the confusion the hero is arrested as an enemy agent, but he escapes and deserts. He takes his girl to Switzerland, where they are blissfully happy. Then she dies in childbirth...