Word: zurich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general outlines of Joyce's life and many of the particulars are already well and widely known : the years of his youth in Dublin, the years of his exile in Paris, in Zurich, in Trieste, in Rome, again in Paris; his agonizing poverty during year after early year; the years of almost in conceivable misuse at the hands of publishers and, in his case, of printers; the horrifying succession of attacks on his eyes; his relief at length, thanks to Miss Harriet Weaver, from financial worry; the 34 years of unprecedented work he has done in the teeth...
After his friend Freud died last fall, 79-year-old Eugen Steinach puttered dismally about his Zurich refuge, giving hormone injections to barren cows. Deprived of his laboratory, he cried in despair: "What am I doing with my reactivated life?" Last week he tried to prove that in the past he had done great things. He published his first book addressed to laymen, an elegant volume called Sex and Life, garnished with pictures of dissected rats, rejuvenated dogs, and handsome Eugen Steinach...
Queasiest of Europe's quaking neutrals last week were the Swiss. In their two largest cities, Basle and Zurich, both within easy striking distance of the Reich, ominous instructions from the Swiss General Staff were distributed from house to house. These ordered the two cantons' 864,000 citizens to get ready to flee to the countryside in case Switzerland is attacked, warned them to hold themselves in permanent readiness for an evacuation call which may come at any moment...