Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Europe the marriage was momentous. The Tsarinas of Russia had been German since Catharine II (1762-1796). But the Empress Marie avowedly hated Germany and the Germans, and her sister was Alexandra of Britain. It was in the reign of the Empress Marie that the alienation of Moscow from Berlin became as marked as its rapprochement with London...
There are other things, adds Mr. Frank, which symbolize America as much as jazz: Ethelbert Nevin's "The Rosary" is as native as Irving Berlin's "All Alone"; and Harold Bell Wright and the New York Daily News could exist only in this land of our forefathers. But such trifles are ignored by the modernists, even though they are folk art. As Mr. Frank points out, aesthetic acceptance depends on the intrinsic value of art, whether it be folk or fine. If jazz is good it is good because it is jazz, not because it is American. To be pedantic...
Consulat Royal d'Egypte Berlin...
Erich Ludendorff, semi-Napoleonic Prussian war lord: " 'Amazing!' commented the Press last week on the details just revealed, by Dr. Edward Hjelf, onetime Finnish Minister to Berlin, of my escape from Germany in 1918, just before the revolution. Dr. Hjelf said that I, fearing for my life, appealed to him, through the Finnish Foreign Office, for protection. He went on to state that he secured for me a diplomatic passport in the name of one Ernest Lindstrom, Counselor of the Ministry. Another Finnish diplomat, named Lindblom, had just died, but few knew it, and Dr. Hjelf, saying...
Milan heard it first, then Dresden, Vienna, Rome, Rimini, Buenos Aires, Berlin. Last week it was given its U. S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan-Turandot, posthumous opera of Giacomo Puccini, composer of Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, Tosca. The Metropolitan spared no expense and achieved a gorgeous spectacle-first the rambling walls of the Imperial Palace against a sandy Peking sky and a mumbling Chinese crowd gathered to hear a mandarin read the death decree of the youthful Prince of Persia who has failed to solve the three enigmas of the cruel Princess Turandot; dusk, and the great...