Word: harden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hugo Stinnes' funeral, Maximilian Harden, German Socialist writer, had published his latest volume of Kopfe (heads), a series of character sketches of great German men of the present time. Herr Harden in discussing the "King of Coke" admires his financial genius but despises his political ability...
...power of Stinnes over the German mind is shown in Harden's book, by an imaginary dialogue between two men-in-the-street. They declare in all seriousness that Stinnes has proposed to convert the Papacy into a company called "St. Peter's Successors, Limited" with which is to be amalgamated "the Russian Greek Orthodox Church and affiliated in the form of a religious syndicate with other religious organizations in- cluding the Tibetan Lama Church, and that he has plans for establishing a paper factory in the Vatican grounds and founding a moving picture city near Rome which...
...Harden also gives interesting side-lights on Stinnes from the lips of the late Albert Ballin, famed head of the Hamburg-American Steamship Line. After a meeting at which Harden had introduced Stinnes to Ballin, the latter said: "Stinnes is the greatest of the Rhineland captains of industry; but just as some children cannot leave a crumb of cake, and some men cannot leave a woman alone, so Stinnes cannot keep his hands off a single business undertaking even when it belongs to another...
Secrets. Norma Talmadge has an uncanny trick of enhancing her beauty year after year while new screen stars rise before the camera, harden into the semblance of cabaret girls, then iris out. In this triplicate role, she is first a romantic eloper, then a wife struggling with her husband in the American wilderness, then the forgiving wife of a philandering notable...
Maximilian Harden, noted publicist, whose War-time tirades against the Kaiser have been widely published and whose articles against his own country are possibly inspired by a lack of ready cash, once more broke into literary vituperation of Germany. Said he: "Why should America help Germany? It is all very well for Herr Stresemann and others, before and since, to shout to America for help for starving Germany, but Germany is literally crammed with food. Half of last year's harvest is still untouched. People in the towns are starving because the farmer and the landlord are keeping back...