Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long ago, when a hunchbacked Jewish philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86), grandfather of Composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, introduced German culture to Berlin's ghettos the Enlightened Jews objected. For "Before Christ" they insisted on substituting "Before the Common Era," for "Anno Domini" the "Common Era." At the spectacle of the Aryans following Jewish example nearly 200 years later, Jewish rabbis chuckled in their beards...
German newspapers gave less than usual encouragement last week to Austrian Nazis, but many Austrians feared this as an ominous lull before a bloody storm. Men pointed out that Berlin was one of the last great German cities to go Nazi, that Austrian Nazis might conquer Austria from Graz, as Hitler conquered Germany from Munich. If the French would fight a German invasion of Austria, it is by no means certain they would invade Austria to suppress an uprising by Austrian Nazis. General Franco has not had to fight the French Army, and it is unlikely that Hitler would give...
...generation for their comparisons, acclaimed her as the greatest Lieder singer since Wüllner, Gulp and Gerhardt. Thirty-two-year-old Soprano Pitzinger learned Lieder as a girl from Bohemian peasants, studied more with Vienna's famed Lieder composer, Joseph Marx. Five years ago she braved a Berlin recital, became an overnight sensation. In London last May she was thrilled to sing in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for Coronation visitors...
...distant relative. No one was allowed to go close to his cage, because Gargantua can reach about five feet through the bars and get a toe hold on a visitor whom he dislikes." Gargantua may not be the world's biggest captive gorilla-since the death of Berlin Zoo's monster, many zoos have claimed that honor for their gorillas-but he is one of the most vindictive...
...Berlin, Pilot Hanna Reitsch climbed into an autogiro standing in Deutschland Halle, took off, sailed up to the cupola, circled the hall, landed where she started from...