Word: bei
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After World War II Zaisser returned to Germany, became Minister of the Interior in Saxony. Last August he received a new title: Chef der Abteilung für Schulung bei der deutschen Verwaltung des Inneren (Chief of the Division for Training Connected with the German Administration of the Interior). The title was a fancy cover for his real job, head of the Bereitschaften-cadre army...
...piano prodigy who was guest soloist with the Detroit Symphony at eight. Sammy, 35, was brought up on the sidewalks of New York, set a hooky record at Seward Park High School"which still stands." He was already a successful lyricist at 28 (Shoe Shine Boy, Bei Mir Bist Du Schon) when he and Jule teamed up in Hollywood...
...beautiful. But they are impossible without a social revolution. Many of the planners are emigres who do not understand U.S. conditions, are much too eager to show Americans how to tear down their cities. Moses called these planners the Beiunskis because many of their suggestions begin with "Bei uns [in our country] we do things much better...
When Patty was eleven the sisters got in smalltime vaudeville, stayed there until an agent named Lou Levy heard them, taught them a bouncy, Bronxy song. Bei Mir Bist Du Schön. The sisters recorded it for Decca, clicked at once. Since then Manager Levy has picked all their songs, sweet ones as well as cute ones like Beer Barrel Polka, I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, and Well All Right...
...Szechwan three years ago a native found a baby giant panda, replete with tender bamboo shoots, logily sitting on a log, bagged her, sold her to U.S. rarity-trappers. Third of the seven live pandas to enter the U.S., the five-week-old Bei-Shung (white bear) became Pandora of The Bronx Zoo. In her cage she prowled and played and delicately nibbled asparagus tips, a conscious comic who put even sophisticates in stitches with her improvised routines...