Word: hamburger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hamburg, Germany, lived a boa constrictor. He was the pride of the municipal zoo, and all day he reclined in his cell, staring down with absorbed eyes at his scaled and glittering body. The keeper, observing this, reflected: "How beautiful he is to himself, this hideous creature." One day, a few minutes late with the boa constrictor's supper, the keeper hurried into his cage to find him stretched on the floor, in the shape of a great stiff zero with one end of him inside the other. He had tried to eat his tail; his teeth had become...
...taken last month showed the population to be 62,500,000, exclusive of the 750,000 Germans in the Saar region temporarily ceded to France. This is an increase of 3,350,000 over the 1919 census. Berlin remains the second largest European city, with 3,900,000 inhabitants. Hamburg is the second largest German city, with just over a million. Köln (Cologne), München, Leipzig and Dresden have each over 600,000 and Breslau exceeds the 500,000 mark...
...wanted to talk to her sister, a Mrs. Emil Berolzheimer. Mrs. Berolzheimer was also at sea, 150 miles away, on another German liner. Nevertheless, Mrs. Sampter marched into a telephone booth aboard her ship, the North German Lloyd Columbus, and was soon gabbling with her sister, on the Hamburg-American Deutschland, about fashions, family matters and a political dinner Mrs. B.'s brother-in-law had lately attended. For eight minutes they talked, exclaiming, interrupting each other, both talking at once. After she rang off, Mrs. Sampter paid the wireless operator of the Columbus her toll...
...situation without recent precedent in the history of British Amateur Golf Championships. But there it was, as plain as the nose on a plain caddy's face, and you had to accept it, whether you liked it or not. The indomitable Tolley, who had beaten Hans Samek of Hamburg, ''the first German ever entered in a British golf championship," was eliminated by a man named Thompson who had never before got beyond the first round. It was Douglas Grant, U.S. resident in Britain, who put out wethered; but Grant in turn was beaten by R. W. Crummack...
...Shakespeare National Memorial Theatre, but without startling success. In Mr. Archibald Henderson's "Table Talk of G. B. S." he reports what progress has already been made. "After many years of struggle," says Mr. Shaw, "we have had but one subscription. The solitary sportsman who gave it was a Hamburg gentleman. When Germany recovers from the war, we may get another move on. Nil desperandum...