Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commerce. Telegrams rained in from President Coolidge, Vice President Dawes, Charles Evans Hughes, Andrew William Mellon and all the obvious people also from Dr. Frank Crane, sermonizer, who said "tickled to death," and Morris Gest, theatrical producer, who said: "My father and mother have been praying for you in Berlin...
...Berlin reacted cordially. The Tageblatt congratulated Mr. Hoover upon what it called his "German origins," and stated that his family name was originally Huber...
...182.Chased by the Berlin Police, several Communist Deputies wanted for political crimes sprinted into the Reichstag, last week, where sanctuary was theirs...
Feodor Chaliapin, famed basso profundo of the Metropolitan Opera Company, being entertained by the Berlin Actors' Club, was asked to amuse his hosts with a specimen of song. He arose but instead of singing, delivered a brief address on his life. "Sing, sing!" shouted the bad actors. Chaliapin drew a charcoal cartoon of himself which amused his audience but did not stop their demands for song. Chaliapin rose a third time, went through the motions of an aria, puffing his chest, swinging his arms, opening and shutting his mouth like a large Russian goldfish, without making a sound. After...
Only Germans took the affair to heart. Cabby Hartmann was royally banqueted at the German Embassy in Paris. In Berlin the Tagliche-Rundschau, organ of the Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Gustav Streseman, famed German Foreign Minister, declared: "The common people of France no longer feel that animosity toward Germans so long and artificially promoted by [French] politicians and the press." Observers who know the tenacious French mentality in regions which have been devastated by tramping Teutons were unimpressed. But enough postcards have been sold (50,000) and enough more will be sold to enable Cabby Hartmann to retire...