Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prisons [of Lower Tyrol] and are released only when they have surrendered their chastity to brutal [Italian] jailers!" Deputy Kold revamped in detail the familiar fact that Italianization of the Lower Tyrol (or Higher Adige) has been ruthlessly carried out, even to the extent of altering from German into Italian the very names of streets and the lettering on tableware in formerly Austrian hotels...
Because Their Majesties are the first reigning sovereigns to visit Berlin officially since the War, their reception last week included the lavish decking of Unter den Linden with much tall, upstanding greenery and many an Afghan & German flag. The famed Prince Albrecht Palace had been entirely renovated for their reception...
...Royal & Presidential party swept up from the station and through the Brandenburg Gate, a crowd of some 30,000 saw with amazement that the last motor in the procession was bright red and driven by Friedrick Wilhelm, onetime German Crown Prince & Crown Prince of Prussia. Uninvited, he had merrily slipped up behind. Prudent, he soon turned down a side street amid scattered cheers and more booes...
...German promoters will follow the most advanced trend in the British greyhound racing craze, by holding meets on an illuminated track between the smart hours...
...Belgian soldier had a vision during the last German attack. He saw the whole earth, uprooted, dancing madly and monotonously to the music of Igor Stravinsky. Thus terrific, thus awful a genius does the Stravinsky of today appear to a handful of those who pretend to understand...