Word: hamburged
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Antonia Brico is a conductor who, like helter-skelter Ethel Leginska, affects a jacket which resembles an old-fashioned Prince Albert.* She grew up in Oakland, Calif., studied for five years with Karl Muck in Germany. She has conducted successfully in Berlin, Hamburg, Manhattan. Women proclaim her a genius. Men say that she is an excellent musician who has a clean, sure beat...
...length of the delay. The Empress of Britain reported more business at the bars during one day's delay than during a whole ten-day cruise. The French liner Champlain stuck briefly in a mudbank. Near the Statue of Liberty a ferry sank a coal-barge. The Hamburg-American liner Resolute sideswiped a freighter, erasing the last six letters of her own name from the bow. Ellis Island's Immigration Station reported it was short of food...
...West. Apparently just as much at home in the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q as he was in Hannibal's tent (The Road to Rome) or post-War Austria (Reunion in Vienna), Playwright Sherwood has given a humorous and dramatic three-dimensional panorama of the hamburg and gas-peddling Maples, their young, ex-fullback helper, the rich and insufferable Chisholms who drive up in their Duesenberg limousine. Things really begin to hum when Duke Mantee's mob arrives at the front end of a nation-wide manhunt...
Hailed by Nazis as a master stroke, almost the first economic act of the Hitler regime was to bash together those two able rivals, Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd...
Hardly a day passes throughout the year that four or five large passenger liners do not arrive in New York from Southampton, Le Havre, Hamburg, Genoa, Buenos Aires, Bremen. Glasgow, Cherbourg, Villefranche, Oslo, Valparaiso, Havana. And hardly a day passes that these ships do not set down on the Manhattan docks a score or more of passengers whose opinions on gold, Hitler, husbands, Russian food, literature, Disarmament, legs, do not make news of a kind. But at no time during the year is such news so plentiful as during the first ten days of September. Then ocean travel...