Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that these agreements in no way affected peacetime or commercial loans. General Lincoln C. Andrews, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement, talked, meanwhile, with Britishers in London concerning Anglo-American anti-smuggling cooperation. Charles S. Dewey, another Assistant Secretary, is in Berlin for pleasure and economic investigations...
...until last week were ornithologists particularly conscious of a truly extraordinary feature of stork ethics that is familiar folklore among European peasants. Storks enforce their code of sex morality by vigilant communal action. Ornithologist Annie France-Harar arrived in Berlin from a stork-studying trip to Greece and described the actual execution of a stork adulteress by 50 of her incensed neighbors. They met in the air over her nest, where she sat trembling with full knowledge of her sin and the penalty. Down they swooped upon her, their plunging, hacking bills soon rending her wicked body to bits. Miss...
German flood areas: Berlin (31 deaths, $3,000,000 damage); Thuringia; the Elbe Valley; Saxony; Coburg; the Province of Hohenzollern...
...German press was filled with pride last week when it made public a "last word" in civic modernity-an official airplane for Mayor Boess of Berlin. Germany is tightly sewn together by air routes between its principal cities. Officers of state invariably fly hither and thither to great public functions. But Mayor Boess-though, of course, he has a motor, a motor boat, and ample public money for his railway fare, when he wished to go, say, to the Leipzig fair- has lately felt almost medieval without a smart monoplane and liveried pilot...
...uleins of Berlin appeared recently with new parasols-sun-shades that ruffled in the wind like huge red roses. They were made of chicken feathers-the down of ordinary white hens, glued on the silk, painted red. In London, dead silver foxes have long been smartly worn around the neck. Recently Mrs. F. P. Long (Philadelphia) appeared in Hyde Park on a Sunday morning parade with a silver fox docilely scampering beside her on a leash. On a nearby street Lady Mary Paston was seen leashed to a small African tree bear...