Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Berlin-the distinguished Yuichi Iwase, Accoucheur in Ordinary to the Japanese Empress, was commanded by cable to return to Japan and at once booked a ticket for Tokyo, where he is Professor of Obstetrics at the Imperial University...
...Sold in Berlin by a heartless auctioneer was a letter written by the Queen-Empress when she was just Princess Mary of Teck. It was written in 1893, shortly after the death of her first fiance, the Duke of Clarence, and her engagement to his younger brother, the present George V. "The last year has been such a terribly sad one for me," wrote the 26-year-old princess. "It almost seems strange that any kind of happiness could come into my life again. But Georgie is such a dear. The great sorrow we shared has made our bond...
Last week it was said that Exile Trotsky had contracted pneumonia, summoned a specialist from Berlin. In describing how Stalin was able to seize supreme power, Trotsky declares that, during Lenin's last and protracted illnesses, the present dictator organized a veritable camarilla of self-seekers who conspired secretly against Trotsky (Lenin's logical successor) and took advantage of the fact that Trotsky himself was often ill to foment against him an opposition so strong that when Lenin died Oppositionist Stalin was able gradually to oust Trotskyists from their posts and finally to seize the government...
...Europe-so have they done what Banker deCoppet meant them to do. For balance, clarity and unity they have been and still remain the best of their kind in the U. S., without challenge. Comparable to them abroad might perhaps be the London String Quartet, the Vienna, the Busch (Berlin), and three Hungarian - the Leuer, Budapest and Roth...
Looking around some more you could see William Harrison Dempsey, the evening's promoter; Estelle Taylor, cinemactress when she isn't being Mrs. Dempsey; A J Drexel Biddle Jr., Harvey S. Firestone, John Ringling, Baron & Baroness de Bonsetten, Irving Berlin, Senator Robert M. ("Young Bob") La Follette, Publisher Paul Block. Charles B. Dillingham. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst...