Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helen Keller was feeling O.K., but Companion Polly Thompson was ill. After touring New Zealand, Australia and part of Japan, they canceled the rest of their trip (to China, Korea, Siam, India, Pakistan, Burma, and points Middle East), and booked passage home...
...Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Ceylon...
When it was all over, the Hon. Sir David Smith, chancellor of the University of New Zealand, confessed to a vague feeling of disappointment: "Not a single joke! I rather prefer the way we do it in our British universities-more zest." Last week's inauguration of Dwight D. Eisenhower as president of 194-year-old Columbia University was as solemn as a funeral, as impressive as a coronation, and as carefully mapped as an invasion...
Holy See. In Wellington, New Zealand, several parishioners, with painful burns on their foreheads, complained that someone had put caustic soda in the holy water...
...Laurence Olivier, who throws everything he has into every role he plays, might have to slow down. He had to interrupt his New Zealand tour for a few days to have a knee cartilage fixed: he had been playing Richard III with such an emphatic stage limp that he had given himself a real...