Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russo-Turkish War and the Congress of Berlin", Professor Langer, Harvard...
...Berlin florid Minister of Finance Rudolph Hilferding hastily assembled an informal and secret conference of richest Junkers and tycoons to confer with the tall, imperious president of the Reichsbank when he arrived. In the Fatherland, where such an assemblage represents the colossal vested interests of a score of banking and industrial trusts, it does not take long to sound out the opinions of ''big business." Therefore after only the briefest conference, "Iron Man" Hjalmar Schacht boarded the Nord Express for Paris, appearing to be, as usual, somewhat less gracious and communicative than a snapping turtle...
...Francisco, New Haven. Supporting himself by prolific short stories, he led his nomadic existence, on foot, by motor, from St. Paul to Cape Cod, from Minneapolis to Washington and back again, gleaning, and sorting, and sifting the facts that compose his incisive writings. He started Dodsworth in Berlin, continued in France, Italy, and the Aegean Islands, finished the first draft on a motor caravan tour through England...
They rounded up at Berlin where Fran collected another lover, and this one she proposed to marry. Sam, bewildered, obligingly "deserted" to Paris where he found an honest harlot; to Italy where he found the improbable Edith. Edith thought she could be happy with him in Zenith, though "America terrifies me. I feel insecure there. I feel everybody watching me, and criticizing me unless I'm buzzing about Doing Something Important. And there's no privacy...
...born in 1851, educated at Amherst, and afterwards at the Dartmouth and Harvard Medical Schools. In 1878 he went to Japan, where he was consulting physician of the Imperial Colonial Department. He stayed in Japan nine years and was decorated by the Emperor before leaving. He then studied in Berlin and Vienna, and finally returned to America. He opened an office in Worcester, where he contracted blood poisoning, from which he died...