Word: berne
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Edmund Schulthess, 76, four-times President of Switzerland between 1917 and 1933; after long illness; in Bern...
Sweden's press, starting point of many an international rumor chase, is also home base for the misleading headline. Example: "RUSSIAN TROOPS TO ITALY?", followed by a story quoting Bern speculation based on Ankara reports that Soviet participation in the Advisory Council for Italy might logically involve-"who knows?"-Russian troops...
Five years later Burns and a youth named Bern rented a second-floor loft and opened BB's College of Dancing. They got together a four-piece band so noisy that it had to play near an open window to let the bulk of the syncopation blast into the street. This also served as ballyhoo. The boys got some of their customers by going to Ellis Island and approaching immigrants just off the boats. The sales talk: one of the first requisites of U.S. citizenship was a $5 course of dancing lessons...
...Bern sources said that German readjustments to meet crises on the Russian front and the home front have been forced by growing defeatism within Germany...
...Bern heard the August bombing of Hamburg left 20,000 dead. Raging fires formed an "air chimney," sucked up the oxygen, suffocating and cremating those in shelters below...