Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here was rosebush pruning with a vengeance. Germany's hope of meeting even the Young Plan payments rests largely on further loans from the U. S. Berlin businessmen wrung their hands over the Stresemann "colony" speech. One of them said: "I hope Dr. Stresemann's words will not be interpreted to.mean Germany is opposed to the coming here of American capital. That would be calamitous...
...dressed as a Belgian officer. Announcing himself as an emissary from King Albert, he decorated Major General Henry Tureman Allen, commander of U. S. forces in Germany, with the Belgian Military Medal of Honor and kissed him on both cheeks. The ceremony was performed before the assembled military. In Berlin, posing as Prince Adalbert, third son of the onetime Kaiser, he obtained 100,000 marks from a diamond merchant. In Holland he appeared as Canon Charles Dixon of India, whom he had met, and collected a chapel building fund; for India's heathen. In Rome he was honored...
This reference was to His Majesty King Ahmed Fuad I who, plump, dusky, serene and 61, arrived last week in Berlin on a visit the reason for which was vague to most Berliners. In art circles it was said that Egypt's sovereign was making strenuous efforts to have the German Government return to Cairo the famed bust of Queen Nefertete, excavated by German archeologists in 1913 and considered one of the most important of all Egyptian sculptures...
...places in the world, none is more popularly associated with singing than the bathroom. Last week, grand opera reached the bathroom. The curtain of Berlin's Second State Opera House, rising for the world premiere of Neues vom Tage (The Day's News), latest opus of ultra-modern Composer Paul Hindemith, revealed Primadonna Crete Stueckgold seated in a tub with real-looking soapsuds up to her chin, warbling about the delights of a hot bath...
...yellow German flags fluttered all over the Lakewood camp because Herr Schmeling never forgets that he is a German. He likes it to be known that whenever he returns to his Fatherland, as he did after knocking out Johnny Risko last winter, he immediately calls on his mother near Berlin...