Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That RealmleaderHitler, still a bachelor at 45, now intends to beget instead of appoint his successor is common report in Berlin.* Many a credulous Berliner has heard the story that Handsome Adolf said recently to a male intimate: "I shall marry a German woman of the noblest blood. But whom? So many are all around me with their hopes in their eyes...
...lean, ebullient girl with a long, inquisitive nose and an assertive chin. Born in Canada, educated in California, naturalized a U. S. citizen, she has studied the violin for four years in Germany. With her German-born mother and younger sister, she has roamed the fringes of Berlin's international society, having a lovely time, not in the least shy of discussing her opinions of Nazi Germany with all comers. She wrote little articles and translations for a few German papers voicing what she called "honest criticism about this or that." She dashed off long chatty letters...
...face. Her coarse skin and irregular features express suffering, her eyes have seen the horrors of war. The work is a passionate attack on the brutality and stupidity of modern civilization. Just as forceful in its attack but far more humorous is the drawing by George Grosz called "Berlin Cafe" The bourgeoisie of the German capital is satirized with vitriolic fire. Portrayals of the sufferings of the lower classes appear in the prints and drawings of Nuckel, Burkart, and Kaethe Kollwitz. The handling is so subtle, the technique so skillful, that these pictures are far more than mere proletarian propaganda...
Miss Geraldine Farrar aus New York was the rage in Berlin from 1901 to 1906. One night she was invited to the Imperial Palace, commanded to wear either lavender or black. She chose her own costume ?white?but the Kaiser was interested. At the Metropolitan in Manhattan, where she made her debut in 1906, she continued to have her own way. As the goosegirl in Die Konigskinder she drove the property man to distraction by her successful insistence upon having live geese on the stage. She was the only Metropolitan prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing...
...Berlin, Nov. 8--American automobile firms prepared to withdraw entirely from the German field today following the collapse of separate negotiations with the government...