Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baron George ("Yurek") Sosnowski is an extremely handsome young Pole who served gallantly in the Austrian Army, loves women, excitement. Deeply infatuated with him was the beautiful Baroness Benita von Berg, a blonde whose first husband was Richard von Falkenhayn, son of the late great General von Falkenhayn. Berlin society knew that it was to escape the influence of Polish Baron Sosnowski that beauteous, divorced Benita married stolid Baron von Berg. Curiously, all four remained friendly, all went to the same parties. Sosnowski's parties were enough to set Berlin gossips hissing like snakes. People not invited insisted that...
Last February Baron Sosnowski gave another party, officially for his latest protegee, a dancer. Berlin's half-world knew what to expect. With glittering eyes they hurried to his apartment. This time a whole cordon of secret police were waiting at the door. Many times had the Baron Sosnowski been suspected of espionage. No charge ever stuck. He blamed his luck on a curious signet ring that he always wore. Several weeks before this last party he lost his ring pulling the Baroness von Berg's puppy from a canal...
...Berlin, Feb. 22--Discovery of original manuscripts of Ludwig van Beethoven, some of which would correct current printed versions to conform with the text of the great master, was announced today...
From erudite Berlin savant Dr. Karl Plumeyer, Realmleader Hitler learned last week that "Adolf is an ancient and valorous name derived from the Edelwolf or Noble Wolf, a victory-and-fortune-promising animal...
...Vienna was hard. Her first real singing teacher dismissed her because she had "no voice" and she struggled for scholarships thereafter, wrote poetry on the side. The first money she earned came from verses submitted to Berlin's Der Tag. In 1910 she made her operatic debut in Hamburg and there she learned routine. One night an Austrian impresario was in the theatre on a hunt for a tenor. He signed up Lotte Lehmann instead...