Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin, a man well known in Germany but little known abroad, a man feared, hated, despised, as was the sombre, inscrutable, all-powerful, Hugo Stinnes-this man was arrested on the suspicion of having defrauded the Prussian State Bank and on a charge of usury. Subsequent inves- tigation failed to substantiate the charges and the man was discharged last week...
This time, however, the President decided that sue he must. The case was to be held in Magdeburg, a commercial town in Prussian Saxony about 80 miles southwest of Berlin. A terrific campaign against, the President was waged by the Monarchist press, while the Republican press was equally active in the opposite direction...
Sensitive Jüngling had chronic attacks of gooseflesh. At a certain beer garden in Berlin, a fat, elderly man was seen to order a stein of beer and forget it in the excitment of reading the evening shocker...
There are few remedies for diabetes. What is perhaps the best known remedy is the injection of insulin into the veins. But injections are troublesome, expensive, often painful. Come Mendel, Wittgenstein, Wolffenstein, three wise men of Berlin, professors at the University there. They have made insulin into pills; not such pills as are wont to be taken by candlelight with a sob, a gulp of water and a lump of sugar. No, for insulin dissolves in the juices of the stomach and becomes virtueless. These pills melt in the mouth like very sugar, but, unlike sugar, they melt into...
...diplomat, he saw service at Rio de Janeiro, Christiania, St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), Peking. At the latter place, he met Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, married her. They have one daughter. The Baroness is reputed to be one of Berlin's most popular hostesses and to be well known by the U. S. colony...