Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegates decided, definitely, that the Union would meet next July in Berlin...
...ways of the U. S. tourist among foreign art centres. After a restful week at sea, he despatches the Louvre in two trips of three hours each and says: "I could have done it in 20 minutes with spikes on!" So too through Rome, Florence, Vienna, Munich, Dresden, Berlin, Brussels, Antwerp, London. At last, duty done he embarks for home and another week's rest at sea. In short, the only period of that leisure which is so necessary to enjoyable contemplation of art is spent at sea where, usually, there is none...
...Berlin, a city that has long been accustomed to the defiance flung by thousands of black, white & red monarchist flags, waxed hot and cold at this decree. Fiery Royalists announced that the government was going too far. They argued that personal liberty had been infringed by the mandate, that it was monstrous to prevent good monarchist soldiers from waving their flag, under which many had fought and bled for their country...
...news leaked out through a diplomatic source in Berlin, despatches from Kovno, the "temporary" capitalf of Lithuania, having remained discreetly silent, caution that is an almost indispensable accessory to safety under a dictatorship. This fact, alone, gave the whole episode a Graustarkian touch and the chancelleries of Europe resounded with diplomatic conjecture...
...Manhattan, the Underwood photography service issued a picture of a monstrous cannon tilted skyward, ejecting from its muzzle a human figure. The cannon .was real, the figure a German woman who, at Berlin, allowed herself to be shot from the cannon into a net 40 metres distant, without injury...