Word: adolph
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...Handsome Adolph...
...your April 3 issue p. 4, the protests by Tessa H. Fluhr and comments by Lillian and Walter Mendes concerning handsome Adolf bring to my mind the fact that the German expression "der scho'ne Adolph" was one formerly used for the second oldest profession (pimp). Present-day usage seems to have mollified this harsh meaning but it is still used oftener in a derisive sense than otherwise...
Throughout the last week there has been circulated a persistent and well organized propaganda against Adolph Hitler and his treatment of Jews in Germany. The dictator is alleged to have been the moving spirit behind a persecution incredible in its extent and bitterness, and those who have been most active in dispensing figures and anecdotes have also neglected no opportunity to point the moral of a well adorned tale. Those apocryphal Germans who hacked the hands from helpless little Belgians have been resurrected, and in their new incarnation seem for more terrifying because they are far more plausible...
...graceful romantic narrative in the current full-length fashion, remarkable because Mary Pickford acts so well, still looks so pretty. Some idea of Mary Pickford's career can be suggested by remembering that she had been a cinema star for five years before Adolph Zukor in 1914 acquired her services, which started him on the road to control of the whole cinema industry. Mary Pickford is now 40, and still (like Marion Davies) able to call her own turns, able to get so fine an actor as Leslie Howard opposite her by competence as much as by contract...
Birthdays. Oliver Wendell Holmes. 92; Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, 83; Adolph Simon Ochs. 75; Lillian D. Wald, 66; Albert Einstein...