Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardly a day passes throughout the year that four or five large passenger liners do not arrive in New York from Southampton, Le Havre, Hamburg, Genoa, Buenos Aires, Bremen. Glasgow, Cherbourg, Villefranche, Oslo, Valparaiso, Havana. And hardly a day passes that these ships do not set down on the Manhattan docks a score or more of passengers whose opinions on gold, Hitler, husbands, Russian food, literature, Disarmament, legs, do not make news of a kind. But at no time during the year is such news so plentiful as during the first ten days of September. Then ocean travel...
...lack of circuses for Nazi Germany. As a respite from parades and speeches 980 good German workmen and their wives, all members of the Nazi "Strength Through Joy" Society, last week piled into excursion trains and went trundling third class across Germany from the Saar and Palatinate to Bremen. There they crowded aboard the 15,000-ton North German Lloyd liner Dresden for a cruise up the coast of Norway to the North Cape. Late into the night the Strong-Through-Joy danced, sang Nazi songs, drank fat-bellied mugs of beer. Most of them had never been...
...magnificent string of ponies given him by his wife as a wedding present). Said he: "I am not worried about Barbara's condition. I hope to see her as soon as possible." Meanwhile Franklyn L. Hutton, Barbara's father, was speeding for England aboard the S. S. Bremen. Prince Alexis: "It will be impossible for me to return with them. ... I shall be playing polo." On the fourth day of his wife's retreat Prince Alexis drove to Southampton, met Mr. and Mrs. Hutton. "Prince Mdivani is a square shooter and a great fellow," announced Mr. Hutton...
Riga, its capital and chief port, is a German city. Founded by a handful of merchants from Bremen, it became one of the great ports of the Hanseatic League during the Middle Ages, was captured by Peter the Great's General Sheremetieff...
...midocean one night last week the S. S. Bremen struck something huge and soft, quivered from stem to stern. Officers stopped the ship, peered out, saw nothing. They thought they had hit a sleeping whale...