Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made Teutons fear and Gauls love Sir Eric Phipps was his wit, as dark and quick as sparkling Burgundy. One night while he was in Berlin, Field Marshal Hermann Göring arrived at an Embassy party late and breathless. Bowing deeply, Göring roared: "I have just come from the hunt." Sir Eric examined Göring from head to foot, and drawled: "Animals, I presume...
...Berlin's Illustrierte Zeitung last week got around to publishing the photograph purportedly taken by a Nazi fighting plane which followed a Nazi bomber in the first air raid on the Firth of Forth three weeks ago. A cloud of smoke was shown over the cruiser Edinburgh, described as a bomb striking the ship's port side aft of the second funnel. Official British account of the Firth of Forth raid maintained that Edinburgh was not hit directly, but suffered seven casualties when fragments flew aboard from bombs striking the water nearby. Where there is smoke there...
Herr Matejko, an official Austrian staff artist in World War I, perfected his technique in the trenches and has again been given fullest scope for his talent by the German High Command. Possessor of a fluent romantic style, Theo Matejko works usually in charcoal. Aged 45, famed in Berlin as the driver of a white Mercédès racing car, he has flown this year with Nazi sea raiders but does not claim to have seen the alleged bombing of Ark Royal. This may account for considerable artistic license...
Released meanwhile in Berlin was a photograph of Pilot Carl Francke, "the German aviator who achieved the remarkable act of destroying an English airplane carrier in the North Sea, and who was decorated by Field Marshal Hermann Goring with the Iron Cross, first and second class, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant...
...Punch, Wit A. P. Herbert, literary M. P. for Oxford, wrote an article Mein Pamph, describing the Royal Air Force showering Berlin with "Bomphlets...