Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some-times at the King's they romp and yap among the dancers' legs?especially the one called Jimmie. But Alba's brown dachshunds are much better ball-broken than the two famed black dachshunds of erst Kaiser Wilhelm II, which more than once appalled the Imperial Court at Berlin. With expression meek as mice, the Alba browns have been painted with their master by Spain's most aristocratic portraitist, Ignacio Zuloaga. Not yapping Jimmie but affectionate, face-licking Gika is the favorite of Alba's daughter, an important, proud little miss of three, Maria del Rosario Cayetana Stuart Fitz...
Professor Max Bodenheim of the University of Berlin will speak this afternoon in the Mallinckrodt Large Lecture Room at 4.30 o'clock on "Chemical Actions of Light". This lecture will be given under the auspices of the Department of Chemistry...
Reporters from Berlin who sought out tall, handsome Municher Mann found him quietly working at his latest novel, Joseph and His Brothers, a first venture into Biblical fiction. He would not talk of it, was lured to speak of his newest book, Mario and the Magician, which he wrote last summer in a wicker bath chair on the brim of the Baltic. "I find it quite possible," he gossiped, "to write a novelette while surrounded by noisy folks on a beach." Solemnly: "I am sincerely delighted with this great honor. I welcome it the more because I have always been...
...Ruth was given the leading role in John Alden Carpenter's ballet, The Birthday of the Infanta, presented by the Chicago Civic Opera Company, later in Manhattan and other U. S. cities. Engagements and prestige came fast. She was premiére danseuse of the Bolm Ballet Intime, of Irving Berlin's Music Box Revue; she danced with the Chicago Allied Arts productions in Chicago (a defunct organization then dedicated to modern ballet); for a summer in Europe as the only U. S. citizen ever with the Diaghilev Russian Ballet. She is the wife of Thomas Hart Fisher, son of Taft...
...unusual. It was no timid conflict between rivals mutually afraid of each other. It was a sort of scherzo in slow motion. They explored obscure, experimental lines of play. Instead of brooding for hours in the approved fashion of chess masters, they became at times noticeably excited. At Heidelberg, Berlin, The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam chess followers saw the astounding spectacle of a challenger carrying a match to the world's champion. Once Bogoljubow, in defiance of all tradition, passed up a sure draw to gamble on a doubtful win. Last week, back in Wiesbaden, he startled onlookers by leaving...