Word: antone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lokal Anziger printed a letter which clearly revealed the painful fact that ex-Chancellor Bauer had accepted money from the Barmats. The Socialist Party forced Bauer to resign from the Reichstag?but nothing it could do could temper the cracking shrapnel that spat its hate on every side. Dr. Anton Hofle, ex-Minister of Ports, resigned temporarily from the Reichstag and his trial was rumored; for, although he was not accused of profiting financially, it remained a fact that the Barmat transactions were approved by him. Other revelations implicating Socialists were threatened...
...looks like an understudy for Anton Lang, chief actor of the Oberammergau Passion Players; he hates the country "except as medicine"; loves crowds; is to be seen nearly every afternoon striding spiritedly up Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...
...Anton Flettner's Rotor Ship (TiME, Nov. 17)?or Sailless Ship, as it is more commonly called?has set the scientific world agog. Early reports were entirely misleading. There is no question of capturing the energy of the wind by means of a windmill and transmitting this energy in electrical fashion to an ordinary type of propeller. The invention is at once more simple in mechanism and more recondite in principle. Imagine the Flettner ship broadside to a natural wind, with its huge cylinders rotating in the same direction as the hands of a clock laid flat on deck...
...long time ago, I read an account in some newspaper to the effect that Anton Lang had henceforth forever declined to play the part of Christ in the Passion Play and that he has forbidden his son to take the part. The reason given was "lost faith...
...small as to be negligible; but-greatest marvel of all-out of its superstructure reared two incredible cylinders, 65 ft. high, which twirled and twirled. Harnessed, by some obstruse mechanical slight, to the wind of their twirling, the ship moved through water. It was the sailless ship of Herr Anton Flettner. Before it acquired its two incredible cylinders, it was cumbrously propelled by 500 sq. yds. of canvas...