Word: gustav
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the focus of this ebullient international incident was a Berlin cab driver, "Iron Gustav" Hartmann, 69. Clad in a neat navy blue great coat, beaming behind his reddish beard, and nursing a fat cigar, "Iron Gustav" rode triumphantly up the Champs Elysees, acknowledging the chorus of perhaps ironic "Vives!" with stately bows and majestic flourishings of his high, white stovepipe...
...months ago Cabby Hartmann, who once owned a prosperous livery stable, found himself and wife reduced to penury and possessed of no business capital except a 35-year-old cab and Grassmus, his 13-year-old nag. Desperate, "Iron Gustav" resolved to recoup his fortunes by setting out for Paris, a 665-mile drive, selling postcards to the curious along the way, and displaying a sign which read...
Other old men have performed stunts to sell postcards. But here and there an old man or a young is destined to seem to everyone especially nice. By the time he reached Paris, last week, "Iron Gustav" Hartmann seemed as nice as "Trader Horn," with just a dash of Lindbergh...
...deeply the hearts of Frenchmen were really stirred was shown, when "Iron Gustav" voiced a modest request to be received by Prime Minister Raymond Poincare-a request which was totally ignored...
...critics to condemn the performance as presented in a consecrated house and one which had, incidentally, never been used for morality plays in the middle ages. Poet Masefield replied: "Would you have the shepherds talk about foot and mouth disease?" The play was accordingly produced with accompanying music by Gustav Hoist, with costumes designed by Charles Ricketts...