Word: baden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently this same French Lick Springs and the neighboring town of West Baden were mentioned in Edna Ferber's new novel-Show Boat. A famed gambling house in the vicinity was likewise mentioned-was referred to as "Tom Taggart's place." It had been often similarly spoken of before and the whole question taken up before the courts which had completely acquitted Mr. Taggart. People marvelled at Miss Ferber's statement that she "desired above all to avoid further publicity," for the affair looked like a shrewd stunt to make Show Boat re-Ferberate through the land...
Adjutant telegraphers and telephonists interrupted momentarily the Kaiser's audience with his generals. The Imperial Chancellor, Prince Max of Baden was telephoning from Berlin. Local revolutions, prepared throughout Germany by the Independent Socialists had broken out at Kiel (Nov. 6), Hamburg, Cologne, Munich, Magdeburg, Dresden. ... At Berlin a tide of civilian workers and mutinous soldiers was milling through the streets. Prince Max demanded that the Kaiser abdicate. The populace, he declared, had been convinced by Allied propaganda that the Allies would never make peace with a Hohenzollern, would trample across Germany to Berlin...
...Kaiser's generals urged flight upon him as a matter of common sense. His people had deserted him, they said. Prince Max had fled to Baden...
Recovery. Wilhelm, seeming to have sensed this trend at its inception, has consistently ignored such "Hang the Kaiser!" propaganda as has filtered to Doom, whence he removed from Amerogen (June 1920). He has said dozens of times to visitors, however: "Max von Baden ist hinter mir gegangen!" ("Max of Baden has tricked me behind my back!") Apparently he still dreams that Germany would not have turned from him, had not Prince Max announced* his abdication...
...Venice Thomas Evening in Venice Dunham Fantasia, "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens Suite from "Carnaval" Schumann Preamble Pierrot Chopin Reconnaissance Sphinxes Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmj (Solo Violin, Harp, Organ, and Strings) Guitarre Moskovski Irish Rhapsody Herbert Dance of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Humoresque Dvorak Waltz, "Girls of Baden" Komzak...