Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Nurnberg came Germany's No. 1 Jew-baiter Julius Streicher stopping last week in Berlin to lead ar anti-Semitic parade with brass bands down Unter den Linden. His gem: "After this election Danzig will know what to with your - Jews! . . . The Leader, as we all know, promised the Poles not to touch the Corridor for ten years, and he will keep his word as usual, but the hour will still come...
Privately, prominent Danzig Nazis were ready to admit that the Polish Army would click into action if Adolf Hitler dared as much as even to reach for Danzig. They thought the Realmleader would not dare reach, just yet. However, the Nazi electioneering corps from Berlin last week surpassed all records in spouting at Danzig gems of German thought...
...Horowitz stormed Berlin, then made a tour of Europe. After his debut in Manhattan in 1928, U. S. reporters tried hard to dramatize him but the pianist who could sparkle so on the concert platform proved to be an excessively shy person offstage. Money in his pocket led him to many a naive taste but none worth headlines. He took to wearing pink and red shirts, fussed about his tailoring. In London he bought a Rolls-Royce, which still impresses him greatly. Until lately he has taken little pains with his English...
...line, semi-starvation were more exciting than dreadful. Every day brought some change, some new restriction to be got around somehow. What she principally minded were her ragged clothes. Adolescence and the Armistice made her more aware of events. By the time street-fighting started outside her own Berlin tenement she knew she was living in an abnormal day. Her parents, bourgeois of the old regime, saw their world collapsing around their ears, but to her the ruins were a new world, however sinister. Freed at last from the long drudgery of school, she got a job in a bookshop...
Like nearly everyone else, Lilo Linke was morally affected by the insanity of inflation. She stole books, sold them, began to slip towards the maelstrom of Berlin's delirious night life. What saved her was the Youth Movement. Into this earnestly idealistic confraternity Lilo Linke threw herself with desperate fervor, gave all her interest and every spare moment to its passionately serious meetings, its Spartan week-end jaunts. Her ambition and ability soon made her a leader, and at a national gathering her girls' group was judged the best in Germany. But even Youth Movements grow up. Leader...