Word: franz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brown October Ale kept him in the highest bracket of the American Society of Composers, Authors " Publishers until his death. Other Smith productions: Victor Herbert's The Fortune Tetter, The Serenade, The Idol's Eye, Irving Berlin's Watch Your Step, Stop! Look! Listen!, Franz Lehar's Land of Smiles...
...greatest wisdom is the result of meditating on the fact that in 1914 his beloved Ethiopia was saved from being dismembered by the Great Powers by the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. After the establishment of the League of Nations, the Emperor, or Prince Tafari as he then was, figured out wisely that if Ethiopia could possibly win membership in the League, she might never need an-other World War to distract the Great Powers from dismembering her. To get into the League, though, was most difficult. Egypt was then and is still barred, for the reason that Britain...
KARL MARX-Franz Mehring-Covici, Friede...
...same hour next morning Italian bombers were back again, killing more people but again missing Haile Selassie. The hospital's medical supplies were ruined. Fortunately many of the war correspondents had brought their own. All through the night one Franz Roth, Associated Press photographer, worked with Red Cross doctors anesthetizing patients. If Italians had outraged the world and missed the Emperor, their two bombing raids did have one expected result. At a secret chieftains' meeting enraged Emperor Haile Selassie finally agreed that the time had come to meet the Italians in open battle, let it be known that...
...Prize Committee announced that no award for literature would be given this year, the magazine Books Abroad conducted a symposium to test the opinion of U. S. critics on likely candidates. Maxim Gorki received five votes, Theodore Dreiser three, Willa Cather, André Gide, Eugene O'Neill and Franz Werfel two, while a number of others, ranging from Havelock Ellis to Christopher Morley, received one apiece. If consistency of purpose, unremitting productivity, a distinguished career, were sole criteria, few critics could object to the choice of Havelock Ellis. Now almost 77, he has been actively writing and editing...