Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually, Lindbergh, who has seen many a Russian military airplane, is convinced that their performance is inferior, their construction too involved for mass production. He has also had a good look at the German Air Force, and is convinced that Germany has the air supremacy in Europe, will hold it for some years to come. He expressed his opinions privately to friends, including Lord and Lady Astor, and some in the U. S. (like Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames of NACA), But there was never any banquet of the Cliveden Set, and Lindbergh does not think it likely that British foreign...
...white and velvety grey, and on them were displayed 415 items from the Guggenheim collection. Predominant types: the whorls, jackstraws and disembodied eyelashes of Russian Vasily Kandinsky; the massive, machinelike color patterns of French Fernand Léger; the planetary balls and bubbles, interlocking triangles and color spots of German Rudolf Bauer. It was the biggest, smartest, brightest, most expensive exhibition of abstract painting Manhattan had ever seen...
...time she went to Berlin in 1924, as chief of the Philadelphia Public Ledger bureau, she had a Richard Harding Davis reputation. But she had the good sense to stop trying for scoops and to study the temperament and philosophy of the German people. She made such a thorough job of it that she still knows Germany as well as she knows the U. S. Hostile critics have said she knows it better...
...gentle-souled German pastor wrote a friend: "Here I was-actually in prison, properly under lock and key! . . . I could not help thinking of old D. Traugott Hahn, who in his prison at St. Petersburg knew full well that, while innocent before man, before God he had deserved prison a thousand times over, just as I have. So God has blessed me by humbling me under His mighty hand...
...London Philharmonic Orchestra, Felix Weingartner conducting; Columbia: 3 sides). Jovial tunes, performed only once in the U. S., which Beethoven wrote for a lucky little orchestra which played at a German...