Word: denning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the Milwaukee Zoo guards heard people yelling near the bear den. A big polar bear was wrestling with a little black bear, holding it under water for longer & longer stretches. After a while, with some honey, the guards got the polar bear to stop playing. By that time the little black bear was drowned...
...ward of its director. His personality is very soothing to the animals, and also to an orphan girl about to be bound out for five years. Both, through appropriately creditable motives, become embroiled with the Budapest gendarmarie, and hide away in an abandoned bear den. They are joined by a monkey, a little boy lost, and in the nick of time the villain. The role of the latter is promptly and gratifyingly usurped by a midnight sortie of lions and tigers from their cages. The picture also begins to escape at this moment. For the rescue of both...
...might be interested to know also that I saw TIME on the Crown-Prince's writing table when I interviewed him at 36 Unter den Linden in mid-March: and also on the magazine table of President Hindenburg, although the latter's secretary informed me your magazine was "very inaccurate...
...Meistersinger. Meanwhile, by the Government's express decree, Germans were ordered to light "Liberty Bonfires" and stage torchlight parades throughout the land. About 10 p. m. Nazi Storm Troops and Steel Helmets (War Veterans) were to march in a mighty, triumphal torchlight procession down Unter den Linden while Orator Hitler harangued the nation over a compulsory radio hookup of every German station...
...onetime Imperial Hohenzollern colors, flew in every street, floated majestically from Government buildings and was flaunted everywhere by shouting, cheering throngs. Goosestepping as smartly as when they were members of Germany's Imperial Army, and with several Hohenzollern Princes in their ranks, 20,000 Stahlhelmers paraded down Unter den Linden. Strangely enough, no monarchical restoration loomed. Chancellor Adolf Hitler had merely gone to the German people under borrowed colors, had won a thundering cataclysmic victory with catchwords as loose as his slogan: "Rebirth or Bolshevism...