Word: ernstli
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...dozen years after the 1922 theft, a German-born plumber named Leo Ernst, now 59, on a visit from Dayton, Ohio, to New York, went aboard a German steamship-he believes it was the Hamburg. One of the sailors told Ernst that he had some art works to sell, claimed they would be confiscated on his return to Germany, and asked $10,000 for them. Ernst offered far less, but left with the oils rolled up under...
...Ernst married an American girl who had attended the Dayton Art Institute. When she happened on the oils stuffed in a trunk, her husband assured her: "They're nothing-just some junk I got gypped on." Unable to dismiss them from her mind, Mrs. Ernst spent seven years trying to identify them in art books and libraries. Finally, in 1945, she convinced her husband that they should take the paintings to New York. Art dealers there declared the badly cracked canvases to be worthless fakes or copies. But by searching in the New York Public Library, the Ernsts found...
...Ernst Klingsiek, scribbled Martens' words on a prescription pad - words that a Nazi judge soon called "worth five death sentences." Condemned to the guillotine. Martens spent a year in prison, mostly in chains, until his dossier was deliberately lost by a Nazi official who happened to be one of his ex-patients. Because officials dared not kill him without proper papers, Martens survived...
...ERNST F. MUELLER...
...literary world with its brilliant stream-of-consciousness technique. The book was also studded with four-letter words and some swinging sex scenes, and had been barred from the U.S. After talking with Joyce, Cerf brought back a copy, which was promptly seized at customs. With Attorney Morris Ernst, Cerf took the Ulysses case to court. The now famous decision by Judge John M. Woolsey not only gave Cerf-and Joyce -an impressive victory, but it landed a staggering blow against censorship...