Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Transoceanic Ophthalmoscopy. The travelers far from home need not feel entirely at the mercy of foreign doctors, even if their ailment is something requiring microscopic examination. One Ernestino Dodd of Buenos Aires was in Berlin when his eyes went bad. A photograph of his retina was radioed 7,200 mi. to his own, trusted specialist, who within the hour called back advising his Patient Dodd to have an operation immediately...
...Gustav Boess, pinochle-playing Bürgermeister of Berlin, returned to his own country last week, received a too loud welcome. Three weeks ago his triumphal tour of the U. S. was rudely interrupted with news of Berlin's noisome Sklarek scandal (TIME, Oct. 21). Brusquely the Berlin City Council ordered Mayor Boess to return immediately, tell whether he had bought Frau Boess a $1,000 fur coat from the Sklarek brothers, city contractors, and only paid $100 for it. Taking his own good time, Bürgermeister Boess returned only last week...
...Raus mit dem Schieber!" bawled stentorian voices. "Out with the slippery guy!" Mayor Boess blanched even paler. Frau Boess, defiantly wearing her notorious fur coat, squeezed his elbow to hearten him. First up the gangplank to greet them came Berlin's acting Mayor, Bürgermeister Scholtz with a fat briefcase full of documents of the latest evidence against the Sklarek brothers and their city clothing contracts. Glumly he presented it to his superior, then ducked away to speed back to Berlin by airplane...
...Berlin an even noisier welcome awaited the Boesses. So ugly was the crowd in front of the great Charlottenburg station that police officials persuaded the Mayor to continue on to the station near the Zoological Gardens. Another crowd, just as loud, waited there, booing industriously. Forming a flying wedge, a cordon of leather-shakoed Schupos* hustled Bürgermeister Boess and wife into the station master's office, then spirited them away through a back door to their home...
...Berlin equivalent for "cop." Schupo is short for Schutzpolizci...