Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Geographically Denmark, the land of fish and butter, is a peninsula and cluster of islands. Largest of its islands is Zealand, on which is the capital, Copenhagen. To reach Copenhagen from Berlin an express train must first board a seagoing ferry at Warnemünde, take a 30-mile trip to the island of Falster.* An hour later the train must transship again for a two-mile ferry ride to Zealand. Last week Minister of Public Works J. F. N. Friis-Skotte introduced a bill to the Folketing to give travelers one less ferry to cross...
When a British ship brought news of the "outrage" to Auckland, shocked New Zealand editors roasted the French as a race of coldblooded, unfeeling frogs...
...keyhole-peeping, naughty-prince-and-chambermaid, sin-among-undergraduates, bloody-murder type of article so frequently found in The American Weekly. And its "scientific" articles, favorites of all Sunday editors, were somewhat less imaginative. Features of the first issue: a description of the aborigines of Australia & New Zealand; the child temple-dancers of Bali; Ras Tafari's monogamy; a big-game hunting article, suggesting that African lions are really tame; a summary of now familiar facts about Siam's royalty. The American Weekly of the same date offered: "If the Earth Becomes Uninhabitable-Where Shall We Go?," with...
...comparable death rates from appendicitis among other peoples are: Prussia 6.8; Irish Free State 5.2; Scotland 10.0; New Zealand 7.2; Mexico City 9.1; Italy 3.7 (lowest in the world); England & Wales 7.7. Canada, where living habits are very much as in the U.S., has almost as high a death rate...
...greatest good to humanity, received thousands of suggestions, gave the prize to a Columbia University psychology professor who had proposed a C. Harold Smith Institute of Mental Hygiene. But he never said whether he would carry out the plan. Born in London, he emigrated to New Zealand, fell in love with a Maori maiden, narrowly escaped torture and death at the hands of her tribe, went to the U. S., made a fortune, lived to despise...