Word: georges
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Crash. As it must to all men, Death came last week to Ago Adolf Georg Otto von Maltzan, Baron Zu Wartenberg und Penzlin, 50, German Ambassador to the U. S., while flying in a Lufthansa monoplane from Berlin to Munich. The crash occurred near Schleiz, Thuringia. Five others were instantly killed: Baron Hans von Arnim, Lufthansa official; Herr Roell, director of the Reich railroads; Otto Osners, student pilot; Herr Seiler, mechanic; Herr Charlett, pilot...
...train puffed out. M. Rosengolz and staff proceeded to Berlin where they were to confer with Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Tchitcherin, now sojourning "for his health" in the western political cockpit...
...satin and brocade, powdered wigs, billowing hoopskirts and lacy pantaloons, Smith College teachers and their consorts last week played at opera. In the gay frillery of Georg Friedrich Handel's time (1685-1759), instead of in Roman and Egyptian robes, they gave his nearly forgotten Julius Caesar its first U. S. showing. Professor Oliver Larkin staged the production; Professor Werner Josten directed...
With this threat blazoned, the British note went on to asperse individually and by name five officials of the Soviet Government. Example: Georg Tchitcherin, Soviet Foreign Minister, was described as possessed of the "delusion . . . [and] obsession, which is as illogical as ill-founded . . . that Great Britain is continually plotting against the Union of Socialist Soveit Republics...
...Died. William Vanderbilt, 70, dynamite expert, suddenly, at Peabody, Mass. He arranged 75 sticks of dynamite in a circle, stood in the centre, set them off. Died. Lucy Maynard Salmon, 73, ranking professor at Vassar, who created the History Department in 1887; at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Died. Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, 85, historian-critic, Danish Jew, "Dean of European culture"; following an intestinal operation, in Copenhagen. He criticized the Danish government for its reactionary tendencies, the Church for its formalism, the University of Copenhagen for its intolerant dogmatism; was exiled in 1877. Invited to return in 1883 he became popular...