Word: fritz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long lines of smoking, flaming torches, held by members of the Reichsbanner, republican organization. Flags slipped down half the length of the masts on which they were hoisted. There was a clattering of a police escort, a deep silence from a sorrowing country to mark the day upon which Fritz Ebert passed away...
...Heidelberg, famed University town, in the year 1871-the year that saw the end of the Franco-Prussian War-that a baby was born to the wife of Tailor Ebert. That baby was christened Friedrich and was known as "Fritz...
...early age, Fritz went to a public school in Heidelberg and received there a modest education which he supplemented by voluntary attendance in some of the University's lecture rooms that were open to the general public. At the age of 15, he was apprenticed to a saddlemaker and, while thus employed in learning a trade, joined an organization of youths known as the Young Socialists. This was perhaps the first step of any importance in his life...
...cover of your Feb. 2, issue, you have reproduced a sketch of Fritz Kreisler which, to my mind, is the best I have seen of this great violinist...
...alacrity of their 40 fingers were compressed into a single hand, if the sweetness that shakes from their four wooden boxes were in a single tone, only then would their plural be equal to a certain famed singular. Recently, that singular got off a boat. He, Fritz Kreisler, "World's Greatest Violinist," had come to the U. S. for a concert tour...