Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berne scholars are translating into Turkish 1,800 articles culled from the Swiss Civil Code. At Berlin 700 articles of the German Commercial Code are being similarly translated. At Rome 700 excerpts from the Italian Penal Code are passing into curlicues unintelligible to most Occidentals...
Professor Fairclough has taught the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome in the important intellectual centers of both the Old and the New Worlds. At the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, at the University of Berlin, and in colleges of the United States from California to the Atlantic Coast...
...night last week the Hamburg-Berlin Express de luxe thundered out over its carefully ballasted roadbed at 100 kilometers an hour. A Berliner, who endeavored to appear nonchalant, picked up the telephone instrument which dangled from a hook in his Schlafwagen (sleeping car) compartment, and bellowed the phone number of his apartment on Unter den Linden through the roar of the train. His wife answered, intelligibly, if necessarily at the top of her lungs; and the details of next morning's breakfast were gutturally decided upon. The Berliner hung up, paid the Eisenbahn Gesellschaft (railroad company) 5 gold marks...
...Bismarck was extremely anxious that the text of the Treaty of Berlin should remain secret until the last possible moment. Months in advance De Blowitz had set to work to gain an ascendancy over one of the Iron Chancellor's secretaries. The secretary placed the information which De Blowitz desired in the lining of his own hat, and each day the rotund correspondent sought and found what he wanted in the dark checkroom of the restaurant at which he and the secretary dined-carefully apart. It is history that the Times secured a "beat" over every other newspaper...
When informed that he had been philandering openly in Berlin: "If it were only women I wouldn't mind so much, but Sergei's trouble really comes out of a bottle. ... It is hard for me to conduct my dancing school with Sergei always raising Cain...