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Word: hamburger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once there were dread Magicians who sold to unscrupulous Knights charms guaranteed to render them invisible. Assume for an instant that such a charm could work. Then an army of knights so provided might walk boldly & unseen into the City of Hamburg, select 11 victims at random, and plunge invisible but deadly swords through their hearts. Perhaps the invisible knights would round out a day of ghoulish sport by maiming 200 more unsuspecting men, women & children. Such fiends would delight to steal upon a wedding party and strike down the bride, the bridegroom and the guests. As their sadistic fury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Magic at Hamburg | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Last week precisely the crazed medieval orgy of Devildom described above was reproduced in modern Hamburg when rust ate through a commonplace-looking tank and something began to escape with a faint hiss. The murderous invisible thing that stole forth was phosgene, almost imperceptible war gas. Two girls were fishing from a rowboat in the harbor nearby. When the air surrounding them became charged with phosgene vapor in the minute proportion of one-half gram per cubic yard they went suddenly limp, as the poison acted on their lungs. Invisible swords in the hands of cowardly assassins would not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Magic at Hamburg | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Brave men of the Hamburg Fire Department donned masks intended merely for protection against smoke and rolled the leaking phosgene tank into the nearby canal. Heroes, they were rushed to hospitals, given milk and other antidotes. The entire milk supply of Hamburg was commandeered for the hospitals. Some babies not gassed went hungry until more milk arrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Magic at Hamburg | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...money. So he took a jug of water, a string of sausages, some pumpernickel, a hammock and crawled into a big wooden box. A friend nailed up the box and wrote on the top of it an address in West 84th Street, Manhattan. The box was put aboard the Hamburg American liner, Cleveland; by the time that the Cleveland reached the high seas, the inside of the box was a filthy place indeed. John Thoening, its occupant, squirmed and squealed and tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Despatched | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...this capacity, his first move was to import the Hans Von Bulow Orchestra from Hamburg to the Chicago World's Fair. Next he captured Sandow, the strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Ziggy | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

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