Word: dresden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letters home from captured British and other Allied airmen pictured Stalag Luft III as one of the best prison camps in Germany. The barracks squatted in a spacious clearing among the pine woods northeast of Dresden. The prisoners had a chapel, library, playing field and garden. They lazed through a 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. day. They took walks, naps, sun baths. They had rugby and cricket matches. They attended lectures (science, languages, history, elocution). The food was heavy on soup and potatoes, but Red Cross parcels and afternoon tea kept British spirits up. Last March 22, Stalag Luft...
...Ponsonby finger was in every royal pie. But the bulk of his day was filled with the endless routine of court problems, royal disapproval and viewing-with-alarm. "The Queen would be grateful," he wrote to a diplomat, "if you would request her Charge d'Affaires at Dresden to take a less humorous view of Royal funerals." From the Dean of Windsor he had to find out whether the British Government "officially believe in Purgatory." There were hundreds of importunate requests to submit to the monarch: Oscar Wilde asked permission to copy some of the poetry "written...
Originator of this modern medicine show is plump, German-born Dr. Bruno Gebhard, onetime curator of the famed Dresden Museum of Hygiene. He produced his first big U.S. hit at New York's World Fair in 1939-40, where his medicine and health show was among the best attended. At the Fair and on the road, his famed "transparent man" gave millions the willies...
...hour or so of conversation with a charming and highly intelligent orchid." An A.P. feature writer uttered the glad cry, "As unspoiled as a fresh Swedish snowfall." Bosley Crowther in the Times, after some startling lyricism involving a Viking's sweetheart, Ivory Soap, peaches, cream and Dresden china, concluded: "This reporter would like to go on record that he has never met a star who compares...
Until recently, James Ensor kept open his father's little Ostend souvenir shop, did an average business of 35 francs a day. Before the war the painter was heavily represented in the museums of Antwerp, Brussels, Dresden and Vienna, and not at all in the museums of England, where he held his first British exhibition...