Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such as Sweden, which has played the role of interested spectator in Europe's sword-rattlings, should be the most thoroughly pervaded with the new nation. One remembers that the dove has always found it easiest to alight in Geneva the Hague, or Stockholm than in Paris, London, or Berlin...
Walther Kirchoff?tenor from the Berlin Staatsoper...
Count Salm von Hoogstraeten was being beaten. One Herman Wetzel, 18-year old upstart, had just taken a set from him 6-2 on the courts of the Red-White Club of Berlin and was ahead in the second set. Clearly, nobility must begin to play. Leering at the commoner who had presumed to confront him, nobility began to make loud sneers about lackeys who had exchanged the rug-beater for the tennis racket and would be more at home serving meat balls than rubber balls. Young Wetzel turned red. Nobility curled thick lips over lupine teeth; articulated his taunts...
...Karl Muck, pre-War conductor of the Boston Symphony, similarly refused (in 1918) to conduct "The Star Spangled Banner." Ousted, he now conducts for the Berlin State Opera, is considered the greatest living interpreter of Wagnerian scores...
Married. Miss Dorothy Anna Maria Schurman, daughter of the U. S. Ambassador to Germany, Jacob Gould Schurman to one James Marshall McHugh, Lieutenant U. S. M. C.; at the U. S. Embassy, Berlin, in the presence of the German Foreign Minister, Herr Stresemann, and his wife and many another...