Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fallen in the midst of a struggle fighting to end war and in striving for his country. Almost with his last breath he was striving for that peace and understanding in which he knew the only safety lay, and with which he so completely identified himself. He was a German who well merited the salute one owes to an adversary who has proven his metal and courage...
...With the Armistice and the disastrous Treaty of Versailles a sudden change came upon him. Always acutely practical he realized that right or wrong in the War, Germany was beaten, that her only hope of salvation lay in making friends with her former enemies. After a brief interval as German Chancellor, 1923 found him Germany's Foreign Minister, a position he has retained ever since. There followed the Locarno pact, Germany's entrance into the League-a record that won him the Nobel Peace prize in 1926 and which he topped off with the enthusiastic signing...
...German leaders tried hard to find a successor last week. At Schorfheide, his Bavarian shooting lodge, grizzled old President von Hindenburg quietly celebrated his 82nd birthday. An aide brought news of Stresemann's death. President von Hindenburg rushed back to Berlin. Preceding him was a telegram...
...names of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Gertrude Lawrence and Leslie Howard on every page. And since taste succeeds even where substance is lacking, this English triune is able to make even such vacuous foolery as Candle-Light a matter for winks and nudges. Mr. Wodehouse translated it from the German of Siegfried Geyer, embellished it with his own impish slang and metaphor. Miss Lawrence plays the part of a cuddlesome lady with a crinkly nose who accepts a blind date over the telephone and presently finds herself received by a debonair, ingenuous Prince-Mr. Howard. Asked if he has many mistresses...
Like the Italian Toscanini, the Russian Stokowski chose German music. Like Toscanini with his Beethoven, Stokowski has always had unseen powers over Brahms' First Symphony. Brahms then, followed by worthy excerpts from the Wagnerian Ring made of his first concert a surging translucent affair...