Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress closed with the election of a coalition executive board, headed by Dr. Weizmann including three names famed in U. S. Jewry: Lotus Lipsky, Zionist editor of Manhattan, and Publicist Henrietta Szold and Rabbi Meyer Berlin, two one-time Manhattanites now living in Jerusalem. All eyes then turned toward Zurich Town Hall and the first council meeting of the All-Jewish Union...
...some 300 female delegates. So Kate Kleefeld Stresemann, wife of the German Foreign Minister, came forward, chairman of a special committee, took the ladies by the hand. That was a pleasure for alert Frau Stresemann. There in a body she could study the genus U. S. woman, of which Berlin women have read in the works of Sinclair Lewis, who lately sojourned in Germany with éclat. As advertising goes, the Foreign Minister's wife could have asked for nothing more explicit than this gathering of U. S. women from New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Los Angeles. Dallas...
...Belgians, blond Swedes, good-natured Austrians, ill-tailored Czechs, pompous Italians, hungry Letts, solid Dutchmen, bland Danes, swarthy Poles, incomprehensible Lithuanians, dour Spaniards, excitable Serbs, fish-eating Finns, bony Norwegians, polyglot Swiss, egregious Estonians and 100% Americans-all these to the number of 4,000 assembled last week in Berlin. Greatest of them all were the Americans, 1,000 in number. They were most plentiful because they considered themselves and are considered the world's foremost exponents of the meeting's subject-advertising...
...Germany's Constitution Day. Berlin authorities pleaded by wireless for Commander Eckener to have the Graf Zeppelin salute their city as it did Manhattan and Paris. But the day was also Commander Eckener's 61st birthday and he wished to celebrate it at home. So directly to Friedrichshafen he took his airship...
...Mayor Walker, dramatic demonstrations of love gave Mr. Bohnen and Miss Lewis the reputation of being an ideal couple. Last week Miss Lewis charged that: In Manhattan Mr. Bohnen tried to make her leap from a window; in Paris he dragged her around by the hair; in Berlin he banged her head against a door until the hinges broke; in Los Angeles he slammed her against a wall. After a settlement had been made outside court, Miss Lewis said, "He is a fine man and I love him. It seems that we cannot live together...