Word: doktor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Died. Doktor Heinrich Ritter von Neumann 66, world-famed Austrian ear & throat specialist, himself partially deaf; of a gastric ailment; in Manhattan, where he had gone to assist in resettlement of Jewish refugees. His skill brought him summonses from Kings Edward VIII of England, Alphonso of Spain, Carol of Rumania, George of Greece, many a penniless sufferer. Only patient he refused to treat: Adolf Hitler...
...Durham. In Hampstead, London, there are now so many German Jews that Bobbies have been put on the beat who speak German. Dr. Sigmund Freud exclaimed to friends recently how startled he was when a Hampstead policeman, apparently 100% British, suddenly greeted him with a booming "Guten Abend, Herr Doktor...
...Will To Have Children, a Nazi magazine, came out in Berlin with an attack on marriage bureaus, an appeal to virile Nazi youth to speak directly for itself. The writer, Herr Doktor Paul Danzer, summed up: "Marriage bureaus have a disagreeable taste for the more sensitive young people. . . . There should be no special measures necessary to enable a decent young man to accost a girl-provided the girl makes no resistance. [Ohne besondere Massnahmen käme es dann dazu, dass der anständige junge Mann ohne Widerstand auch ein fremdes Mädchen ansprechen könnte...
...this particular time, an opera extolling peace by any other contemporary composer would probably have been quickly verboten by zealous Nazi censors. But Herr Doktor Richard Strauss is not only Germany's No. 1 composer. As one of the two most eminent composers in the world today (the other is Finland's Jean Sibelius), he is Naziland's No. 1 cultural exhibit. Even though he is a bad boy the Third Reich is loath to spank...
...Herr Doktor Frobenius, a lively, goateed little scholar currently lecturing in the U. S., is not surprised when people are slow to grasp the symbolic complexities of his great collection of "dawn art." "We modern Europeans," says he, "concentrating on the newspaper and on that which happens from one day to the next, have lost the ability to think in large dimensions. We need a change of Lebensgefiihl, of our feeling for life. And it is my hope that the enormous perspective of human growth and existence which has been opened to us by these pictures and by the researches...