Word: ernst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris. He tried to be an acrobat but sprained his ankle. Later he made three francs an evening imitating famed singers in the Casino des Tourelles. He danced with Mistinguette at the Folies-Bergere, went to war, escaped from a German prison camp to get back to the Folies. Ernst Lubitsch (the Patriot) will direct him in an operetta...
Finally last week the exhausted politicians arranged for parliament to elect as chancellor no one of their number, but a potent businessman, Dr. Ernst Streeruwitz, who in his youth was a smart cavalry officer of the Habsburg Imperial Guard. Such a choice will not long be stomached by the second largest Austrian party, the radical, devoutly Marxian "Social Democrats...
...University. Peking, where they will be under the supervision of the Harvard-Yenching Institute which was established last year. The following four men, all of whom have already completed work under eminent sinologists at Harvard, will go to China next year: James R. Ware, A.M., University of Pennsylvania '25; Ernst Diez, Ph. D., University of Graz '02; Carl Schuster '27; Eugene K. Biggerstaff...
...committed a criminal obscenity by sending through the mails a 24-page pamphlet she had written, entitled The Sex Side of Life. Beside Mrs. Dennett sat her 28-year-old son Carleton (with his wife) and her younger son Devon, aged 24. Near her sat Attorney Morris L. Ernst and Dr. R. L. Dickinson of the N. Y. Academy of Medicine, her supporters. At the other end of the table sat Assistant U. S, Attorney James E. Wilkinson, with John S. Sumner of the New York Society for Suppression of Vice and Canon William Sheafe Chase of the Episcopal Church...
...chosen words from Washington; then came many another greeting radioed from absent speakers in distant lands, on distant seas. During the long-distance conversations there was heard the loud popping of a champagne cork. No illegal pop was popped, however, as the report proceeded from the Berlin hotel of Ernst Filsinger, head of the Export Managers' Club of New York. Exporter Filsinger told the delegates that he was very sorry not to be in Baltimore with them. Then he made his champagne cork pop, thus testifying to the miracles of modern science and perhaps to the alleviating circumstances...