Word: holland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still active popular interest in the murder. Rothstein, played by William Powell, is not named directly, but in general the plot follows the outlines of the real case faithfully-Lindy's restaurant on Broadway is reproduced as "Larry's," and no trouble is taken to keep the Holland House Hotel from looking like the Park Central. It is an exciting and fairly credible melodrama distinguished by Powell's fine performance. Best shot: Gambler Powell coming out of the hotel where he has been shot, bent over, staggering, with his hand pressed to his groin, while the hotel...
...Well, gentlemen, perhaps a little," said Mynheer Adrian Gips, a director of the Holland America Line. Stoutly he added that nearly all the $1,000,000 had been spent on solid Dutch comfort-more bathrooms, broader cabins, a new swimming pool in what was once cavernous cargo space. There are no boats on any ocean so frequently painted, furiously scrubbed, resolutely polished as the Dutch. On the Rotterdam a relay of tiny Dutch pages, with faces as round and red as Edam cheeses, stand all day and half the night beside the First Class main stairway, to dash forward...
...Soviet Government further put into circulation false foreign bank notes in Siam, India, Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, South America, Mexico and African coast cities. During the summer of 1929, forged notes were circulated also in Europe-namely in Poland, Germany, Holland, Italy and Greece...
Birthday. Onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II; at Doom, Holland...
...Europe Elisabeth Ohms is regarded as one of the foremost singers of the day. A native of Arnhem, Holland, she began to study singing at 16, was graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory at 19, soon afterward appeared in concerts under Conductor Willem Mengelberg. Her operatic career was chiefly molded in Germany-in Mainz where she sang for two years, in Munich where tourists have flocked to hear her Isolde, her Leonore (Fidelio), her Elektra, her Tosca, her Brünnhildes in the Ring operas. Famed too have been her appearances at London's Covent Garden, at La Scala...