Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Samoa, a hurricane sideswiped the Idle Hour, snapped her sticks, and for 25 days the boys, sailed the 1,200 miles to New Zealand under a jury mast, with a blanket for sail. After repairs, the Idle Hour touched at Sydney, New Guinea, Bali, Singapore, carrying an occasional venturesome paying passenger. At Colombo, Ceylon, Timi caught malaria, died in Long's arms. Long saw to Timi's burial, then sailed on to London, stayed a year, wrote his 120,000-word book. In June he left Falmouth with Wilbur Thomas, 25, an American acquaintance who had come from...
...seeking a U. S. publisher for his book. Back in the job-hunting mill he had fled four years before, he had recommendations few job seekers could offer-from U. S. Admiral Harry Yarnell of the Asiatic Fleet, the Governor-General of Australia, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the First Lord of the British Admiralty, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, even from the Lord Mayor of London himself, on Mansion House stationery. But most highly prized was one on the chaste paper of Lambeth Palace, a character from the Archbishop of York himself, a dignitary, says Long, who draws...
...seemed deader than "The Ashes" for which they were playing.-* The new record for the Anglo-Australian series was 30 runs better than the record set in 1930 by Australia's famed Don Bradman. It was even better than the record for all international cricket: 336 (against New Zealand), set in 1933 by Britain's famed Wally Hammond...
...dividing France and Switzerland, lie historic international conference cities, Geneva, Lausanne, Montreux, Nyon. Last week, the gay French resort of Evian-les-Bains was added to the list as delegates from 32 nations, including three world powers (U. S., France, Britain), four British Dominions (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Eire), most of the Latin American nations and several smaller European powers, there set up headquarters in the luxurious Hotel Royal. They came in answer to President Roosevelt's invitation, issued soon after Germany annexed Austria, to see what could be done to provide new homes for racial and political refugees...
After China, prophesies Price, comes inevitable Japanese domination of the Philippines, Siam, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, the African west coast. Having enumerated his reasons why Japan cannot lose and the U. S. cannot win in the Orient, Author Price suggests that the U. S. "retire gracefully." His alternative suggestion is that the U. S. hereafter do business exclusively with Japan...