Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indeed the diplomatic career of Paul Claudel is totally anomalous. Who has heard before of a mystic-Vice Consul (New York, 1893; Boston, 1894), of a poet- Consul (Shanghai, Foochow, Tienstin, Prague, Frankfort-On-Main and Hamburg until 1914), finally who ever heard of an active play-wright† as Minister to Brazil (1916), to Denmark (1919) and finally Ambassador to Japan since 1921? The man is a reductio ad paradoxa...
...ranked among the greatest conductor. Arturo Toscanini, (La Scala, Milan) unrivaled in ability to make an orchestra "sound"; Willem Mengelberg, (N. Y. Philharmonic) famed for the passionate warmth of his music; Paul Felix Weingartner, (Vienna) who loves the "classica"; Karl Muck, (Hamburg) noted for his tone coloring; Frederick Stock, who has made the Chicago Orchestra one of the three best in the world; Leopold Stokowski, (Philadelphia Symphony) the "virtuoso" among conductors: these men are widely considered to outrank...
...midnight, on the Frankfurt-Hamburg express, a girl, 9, got out of her berth. She climbed up on the roof of the car. There she slept. When the train reached Hamburg a brakeman brought her down, chilly, but well-rested, returned her to her mother. The older woman apologized. Unfortunate, most unfortunate-not surprising. Her daughter was a somnambulist...
German Shipping. No matter what may be the agreement of German navigation companies against foreign competition, there still remains lively rivalry among them for supremacy in German trade. Thus a fortnight ago the Hamburg-American Line refinanced itself as a $31,000,000 concern and absorbed the German-Australian and Kosmos (to South America) lines. Last spring it bought back three ships once sold to Averell Harriman (TIME, March 15). Its total tonnage is now 879,000. Last week North German Lloyd, apparently somnolescent since the War, increased its capitalization from $8,000,000 to its pre-War total...
...Thus, at Hamburg, last week, was christened the S. S. New York, newest 28,000-ton Hamburg-American Liner...