Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of the Zionist Society in the Shepard Room of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 8.15 o'clock, Dr. Schmaeya Levin will speak on "The Belgians of Civilization." Dr. Levin is a graduate of the University of Berlin and was a member of the first Russian Duma. He started for Europe on the Cecile at the outbreak of the war but that vessel being forced to return, he toured the United States with the object of securing aid for the suffering Belgians. All members of the University may attend...
...characteristic aggressiveness, made nine attempts to get to the front, although he was once sentenced to death, and was later forced to spend much of his time in jail, finally being sentenced to remain two years in a French fortress. Sentence was fortunately suspended, and Mr. Reed proceeded to Berlin by way of Switzerland. Through a fortunate chain of circumstances, he was able to witness a battle from the firing line, of which he will tell in his lecture...
...they were set free with the instructions written on their pass-ports that they should be shot at once if caught within the firing line. On his next attempt, Reed left his pass-port behind, but was soon intercepted and sent back to Paris. Reed then went to Berlin via Switzerland, where he was fortunate enough to meet a tour for correspondents conducted by the German government, and was able to see the three-months old battlefield of the early war. Finally the Commander of the Bavarian army consented to allow visitors and correspondents to spend the night...
...Dramatic Club has secured as its coach and general director for the spring production, Dr. R. Ordynski, of Berlin and Warsaw, Max Reinhardt's chief aid in the staging of plays on the continent of Europe and elsewhere. Dr. Ordynski had charge of the "Sumurun" production in this country and of the great spectacle, "The Miracle," in London and in the larger cities of Germany...
...Hill reviewed the chief incidents leading up to the present war, and pointed out the difference between the results then and in 1878. Then, Bismarck, through the Congress of Berlin, prevented a general European struggle. But last summer, despite the protestations for peace of all the nations involved, arbitration was ignorred in the simplest form of dispute, that of minor importance between two countries...