Word: berness
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Because Parker says "The Tribune has ruined me and my family," and has announced that he would kill the Tribune's publisher, Col. Robert Rutherford ("Ber-tie") McCormick "if he libels me again," the newspaper's lawyers were loath to produce their principal in court. When Plaintiff Parker insisted on having Publisher McCormick as witness, Process Server J. C. Justice was dispatched to inform Col. McCormick that his presence was required. Mr. Justice got nowhere against the Colonel's buffers, but when he was about to describe his experiences in court, defense counsel suddenly produced Col. McCormick...
...Artistic Motion Picture Exhibition in Venice. Last week, chaperoned by the Feher family, it made its début in the U. S. in Manhattan, where it was billed with great fanfare as the "first surrealistic symphonic cinema fantasy." This turned out to be pure pressagentry, for The Rob ber Symphony lacks even the prime sur realistic quality of being unintelligible...
...wedding the song of his native Lippe-Biesterfeld, a rustic German ditty with the hearty chorus: "Lippe-Detmold is a wonderful town, boom, boom, BOOM!" According to the Nazis, the Prince ought to have "demanded" that the Nazi Horst Wessel song or at the very least Deutschland Über Alles should boom at his wedding-particularly since Lippe-Biesterfeld was abolished as a principality by the German Republic. While the whole German press roared its wrath, the Nazi Political Police rushed around to the homes of three German princesses who had been slated to attend Juliana as bridesmaids, confiscated their...
...night before the wedding Dutch prudence caused both Deutschland Über Alles and the Horst Wessel song to be played at a gala theatrical evening for the royal couple, while Dutch indignation sent speeding to Berlin an extremely stiff note in which Her Majesty's Government demanded that the German Government make its press mind its manners. Scheduled to appear at the gala were some broad Dutch comedians famed for an act in which the chief funster appears as Kaiser Wilhelm II, then strips off gold lace, upturned mustaches and so forth until he finally ends in a plain...