Word: acht
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contrasting with French joy was the raging fury of the German press last week. In Berlin the potent, Democratic Acht Uhr Abendblatt, even thought that Prime Minister Poincaré of France had "influenced'' Agent General Gilbert to write a "made to order report," and rashly charged that this perfidy had been arranged at the Gilbert-Poincaré-Churchill and J. P. Morgan conference in Paris last autumn (TIME, Oct. 29). As German anger mounted, imaginative correspondents cabled the suggestion that if Mr. Gilbert had remained in Berlin, last week, he would have been mobbed. As usual, however, the Agent General had left...
Lest the miracle be doubted, the Berlin Acht Uhr Abenblatt published photographs showing Edward of Wales at every state of his triumphant "surprise visit" to Berlin. The paper sold fast on the boulevards, and few readers turned to the last sentence of the story on an inside page which read: "April Fool...
...Ebert funeral appeared a large wreath of lilacs, bearing a ribbon with a crown and the initial "W." The Acht Uhr Abendblatt was overjoyed. "From ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm," the newspaper reported. The Deutsches Tageblatt was certain that it was the ex-Kaiser who had, with characteristic thought, sent the wreath...