Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Motors. The German automobile manufactuers, having just held a show at Berlin from which all foreign makes were excluded, did not even trouble to send their cars to Leipsic. In consequence, the U. S. makes, which were nearly all well represented, completely dominated the show...
...book sparkles with quotable lines. Apropos of the statement that Irving Berlin can neither read nor write music, Dr. Collins observes: "Some who have heard his compositions will say 'I knew it!'" And then he adds: "Homer could neither read nor write and his poetry has stirred the hearts of thousands of generations...
...Berlin. Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary-General of the League of Nations, arrived from Geneva to confer with Foreign Minister Stresemann respecting the details of Germany's forthcoming entry into the League. Later the Foreign Relations Committee of the Reichstag passed a resolution strongly condemning French propaganda, which has been urging that Poland be given a permanent seat on the League Council at the same time as Germany. The German resolution was, of course, couched in purely general terms; did not mention Poland or her great ally France...
Curtain Cord. While Germans rejoiced at their Government's declaration, there developed out of the affair, a notable scandal at the famed Film and Stage Supper Club, Berlin. The Marchesa Gabriele di Serra Mantschedda entered with two Italian actors and her sister, Maria Orska, the famed and darkly brilliant Russo-Polish actress, long popular in Berlin. While habitues whispered that the Marchesa's Italian husband had recently deserted her and that she was acting as her sister's business manager, she arose, strolled over to the orchestra and tipped the leader heavily to play an Italian Fascist song. Stepping from...
...more completely but more swiftly than other cells. It was claimed that complete photographs, not wavy-lined blurs like those published after the London-New York tests of 1924 and the Hawaii-Long Island tests of 1925, were available in London, Paris or Manhattan five minutes after transmission from Berlin...