Word: tyrol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chocolaty skin, soft negroid eyes, feminine hands. But he could raise four army muskets by inserting his fingers into the muzzles. In one Austrian battle he defended a bridge so fiercely that thereafter he was called "Horatius Codes of the Tyrol." Said admiring General Thiebault: "He is the only colored man whom I have forgiven his skin...
...strange U.S. monopoly: Shetland ponies. Young George went to Hotchkiss, paused in Princeton, then went to work in Missouri for Associated Telephone & Telegraph Co. "going down into manholes and up telephone poles." Two years of the seamy side of phone business was enough. George went to the Tyrol to ski-and stayed in Europe to study the phenomenon of sunburn, with two chemists to help. He ended up with the formula for Skol, brought it back to the U.S. But his family took a low view of it all, so George, with about $10,000 of his own money, went...
...meets of the caliber of Lake Placid's will be few. But New England can boast the cream of European ski teachers. The world's most famed Skimeister, 52-year-old Hannes Schneider, is continuing at North Conway, N.H. the school he founded in the Austrian Tyrol. At Manchester, Vt. his onetime assistant, Otto Lang, has transplanted the school he operated at Sun Valley during the past two years. Among Lang's corps of assistants are many famed Alpine experts, including Shirley ("Elli") Stiller, one of the few women instructors...
...tour, complete with travel notes, of Paris, Nürnberg, Innsbruck and the Austrian Tyrol, all on the thin edge...
...absolute neutrality and his will for peace, led the King in 1936 to abandon Belgium's alliance with France. After that he became more & more subject to the influence of Flemish, anti-French thought. He had no personal liking for the French, used to vacation in the Austrian Tyrol and Italy, caused a mild scandal in 1938 by letting his picture be taken bathing near Bolzano with a certain Frau Rosa Weisinger (see cut, p. 32). Leopold had the most solemn assurances from Adolf Hitler that his country would not be invaded, and right...