Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...small, snug Berlin flat of Sinclair Lewis was devoted, for the afternoon, to cocktails, beer and tea. The guests, including famed Rosamond (The Miracle) Pinchot, toasted diversely in all three beverages a petite and pretty black-haired woman who would soon be off adventurously to Moscow. She was Dorothy Thompson, the clever, penetrating Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Public Ledger, which are owned by Sateveposter Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. As she sat, nibbling an olive from the depths of her cocktail, Miss Thompson (divorced) looked pleasantly incapable of delving into Soviet Russia and returning...
...nights after the small, snug tea Dorothy Thompson looked even less the curt, mannish newshawk which some imagine her as she danced, in a low-cut gown, with Sinclair Lewis at a smart Berlin night bar. Before the week was out, however, she was indubitably in Moscow and remained there during the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Bolshevist regime. The exhaustive report of petite correspondent Dorothy Thompson has now reached the U. S. in its entirety and appeared in the papers which she serves. No sooner was it off the press, however, than a similar...
...Prince Eitel Friedrich, 44, second son of former Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, and Mme. Clara Sielchen Schwartz, 52, widow of Opera Singer Joseph Schwartz. Reputed second wealthiest prince in Europe, Eitel Friedrich was divorced in 1927 by the former Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Oldenburg, who subsequently married a Berlin police officer...
Already this season having kept their time & wits to the visiting leadership of visiting Frit?, Busch, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Arthur Rodzinski, Evgene Goossens, Maurice Ravel-the facile musicians of the New York Symphony Orchestra last week beat, blew & bowed to the conducting of Oskar Fried, guest from Berlin on his first conductorial visit...
Fraulein Clairenore Stinnes, eldest daughter of Hugo Stinnes (late industrial lord of the German Ruhr), reached Peking, China, last week in an automobile which she had adventurously driven from Berlin across the Balkans, Turkey and Asiatic Russia (TIME, June 6). She will drive on "around the world" ferrying the Pacific and Atlantic...