Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dutifully kept their starched dresses clean of grass stains and their opinions to themselves. They were not the only ones balked of celebrating the 81st Birthday of the President of the German Republic. Scores, nay, hundreds of civic organizations had applied for permits to parade and joyfully demonstrate, in Berlin, before the Presidential Mansion...
...such applications were courteously refused?for Old Paul von Hindenburg had said: "May there be no public observance of the day. I shall be away from Berlin, somewhere in the quiet of the country...
...course, "somewhere" meant the Presidential Hunting Lodge, on secluded, wimpling Lake Werbellin, a scant 40 miles from Berlin, yet remote as a hut in the Black Forest...
German newsgatherers, totally excluded from the "celebration," had to be content with interviewing at Berlin the President's nephew, Herbert von Hindenburg, who told them his favorite Hindenburg anecdote...
...root of the evil is urbanism or metropolitanism. The metropolis grows by attracting to itself the population of the country, which, as soon as it becomes urbanized, becomes barren. . . . The progressive sterility of city dwellers is in direct ratio to the rapidly monstrous growth of the city. Berlin, which in one century passed from 100,000 to more than 4,000,000 inhabitants, is today the most sterile city in the world. The bigger a city becomes the more barren it becomes...