Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paternal home, Castlecomer; waved at babies and grannies, made a speech on a kitchen chair. He dined with Tenor John McCormack Saturday night and took naps Sunday afternoon. Then he held up a mail steamer to hurry back to England. From England he planned to go to Berlin, Paris...
...Berlin, the Welt Am Abend, radical sheet, snarled: "Next week the Mayor of New York, Jazz Walker, ally of" Fuller [Governor of Massachusetts] intends to visit Berlin. The gentleman should turn back. He wants to be received here Wednesday. We do not receive murderers...
Significance. The mere fact that the trade treaty was hailed in Paris and Berlin as signifying an improvement of political relations and as giving a new impetus to the prosperity of each, speaks volumes for the distance the two onetime enemies have traveled since the War. Up to 1914, trade between the two countries was regulated by the Treaty of Frankfort, which ended the war of 1870-71. Since the World War, there has been no well-defined commercial accord, trade being subject to a general agreement, except in the case of specific articles, on the basis of the customs...
...Beginning. At 26 he began as an actor of elderly character roles. Otto Brahm, Berlin impressario, offered the youth a bril liant opportunity to play in the German capital. When the time drew near for him to leave, Reinhardt regretted his acceptance, begged to be excused from the enticements of "an uncertain career" in the great city. But Herr Brahm stood adamant on his contract rights and the young man was obliged to break away from his enchanted Salzburg...
Reinhardt v. Kaiser. The year of Reinhardt's arrival in Berlin was a period of intense realism in the Teutonic theatre, when every dunghill and sweat bead in the dialogue found its concrete embodiment on the stage. His Imperial Majesty, Kaiser Wilhelm II, would have it so, having set his imperial face against the art of Painter Lieberman, Poet Hauptmann, Composer Richard Strauss, all of whom found life so harsh as to require art's illusion to make it bearable...