Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seventysix, Sir Edward was a diplomatist of the old school. In 1869 he entered the diplomatic service and in the 45 years between 1869 and 1914 he held posts at Madrid, Buenos Aires, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Constantinople, Peking, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Petrograd, Washington, Belgrade, Vienna, Berlin...
...reporting the Chancellor's words, wrote himself into history, because the British Empire went to war to uphold the sanctity of inter national contracts and for other very good but less moving reasons. When the news that Britain had declared war on Germany became known in Berlin, an unruly mob assembled outside the British Embassy. The Kaiser apologized for the disturbances, said that they plainly showed the state of feeling of the German people. He asked the Ambassador to tell King George that he was very proud of his titles of Field Marshal in the British Army...
Spiderweb stockings, made of thread so fine that it takes 279 miles of it to make a pound of silk, are the latest novelty in women's dress at Berlin. Dealers stated that they were only for show and could not outlast a single jazz...
...Berlin, a company received orders for 40,000 "midget sets" invented by one Otto Maresch to retail for $1.75. "Persons walk the streets with receivers adjusted to their ears, hear concerts, news and political speeches." In Dallas, it was announced that "Texas has a new club whose members never see each other's faces." The North Texas Radio Phone Club meets on Sunday afternoons; "each member answers to roll call, speaks in turn while the others listen in." In London, it was announced that the possibility of transmitting radio messages in a "beam"* between England and Australia is "likely...
...penniless at a small inn near Aachen." Once she was a student under the great Wagner, once she thrilled thousands of German opera-goers-so much so that they were accused of making a goddess of her. Once Frau Rosa Luxemburg ruled the red roost at Communist headquarters in Berlin. She was killed in 1919. Frau Klara Zetkin succeeded her, but Klara became old, abdicated her power, went to Russia, her "spiritual home." The new leader is Frau Ruth Fischer, Vienna Jewess, onetime confidante of Bela Kun. She is described as "a woman with an overbubbling temperament, always found where...