Word: tyrol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Barbara, now a young lady of 17, was 11, precocious and down-to-earth when she accompanied Bemelmans on a grand tour of France, Switzerland, the Tyrol, Italy. Every page of their progress is littered with the types that have peopled Poppy's works for the past 15 years. The bowing hotel managers (suggestive of urbane boa constrictors), the bespatted aristocrats, the bored billionaires, the Tyrolean songsters with hooked pipes, the tiny donkeys and the hairy mongrels-all these Bemelmans perennials once floated in a dream ballroom and filled the air with a fragrance of old brandy, Russian leather...
...every day, not so long ago, I used to think of golf as an old man's game. Well, maybe it is, but now I'm playing golf." However, he said, fishing was still his first love, and for his casting expeditions he had bought a jaunty Tyrol hat, decked out with the traditional chamois brush and silver pins...
Over their busy New Year's holiday, guides and hotelkeepers in eastern Switzerland and the neighboring Austrian province of Tyrol had gloomily eyed the thinning snow on their famous ski slopes. Smoothing their local pride, they assured grumbling foreign visitors that more snow, a great deal of snow, was bound to come...
...Austrian side of the Alps was worse hit than the Swiss. Forty-five thousand people in the Austrian provinces of Tyrol, Styria and Salzkammergut were cut off from the outside world. A rumbling avalanche tore down the slopes of Gross-Glockner mountain and swallowed up the resort village of Heiligenblut. Slides killed 14 near the famous health resort of Bad Gastein. To help in rescue work, French occupation commanders placed their entire 4,000-man military force at the disposal of Austrian authorities...