Word: hameline
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Thirty years ago, when Istanbul was Constantinople, visitors to the city found it as overrun with dogs as Hamelin was with rats. Every small section had its band of ten to 25 mongrels-all sizes, shapes and colors-which woke to fighting fury when a dog from another section tried to trespass on its territory. They littered the narrow streets with their droppings, were eternally underfoot, made the night loud with their yapping. But it was part of the Turks' religion to be kind to animals, and the dogs had been there since Constantinople was Byzantium...
...Silly Symphony based on the story of the Pied Piped of Hamelin is also on the program together with Seven Souvenirs. Both supply a pleasure to the rest of the program...
Aside from this the match was slow, consisting of a punting duel between Bilodeau and Exeter's Kagain. The prep-school suffered a serious loss in the first period when Captain Hamelin Turner left the game with a pulled cartilege in his left knee...
...London this winter, the bright young people of Mayfair danced nightly to "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" and "You're Blase," smart tunes made right in London. In Paris, people go to swank Monseigneur especially to hear Lucienne Boyer sing "Parlez-Moi d'Amour," a.soft, fragile French song. In Berlin Tenor Richard Tauber, the monocle man. is making "Du bist mein Traum" a worthy successor to "Dein ist mein Ganzes Herz...
...years ago last March this bright-eyed, keenly dynamic little man snatched fame by the same means as Medieval Hamelin's mythical Pied Piper. Instead of rats he led peasants, hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands from all over the countryside on a weird, terrifying, peaceful march to Bucharest (TIME, Mar. 26, 1928). Squatting and sleeping 60,000 strong in the streets of the Capital, the peasants demanded that the then No. 1 Oligarch, Prime Minister Vintila Bratianu, resign...