Word: horst
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horst W. Janson, of Hamburg, Germany, for study in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Hans Rupp, of Wurttemberg, Germany, for study in the Law School; and Robert E. Mistler, of Konstanz, Germany, now in the Graduate School of Education, for the continuance of study in that school...
Ludwig Bemelmans, who decorated his own Hapsburg restaurant in Manhattan and writes and illustrates children's books, has furnished colorful, charming, completely fitting scenery for Noah. Some wild, reedy snatches of music by Louis Horst are effective. But without Pierre Fresnay's superb impersonation of Noah himself, the fantasy would collapse...
Last winter a Manchester Guardian correspondent attended a Berlin meeting of the German People's Church. He reported it noisy, enthusiastic, a theological free-for-all. Its members sang the Horst Wessel song, interrupted the speakers with shouts of gleeful agreement. When a Dr. Krause made the usual reference to "pimps and cattle-dealers." they cried "Filth! Laute Schweinereien! Loud swinishness!" When another speaker advocated that preachers of the teaching of "Rabbi" (Saint) Paul should be thrown out, they cried "to Oranienburg!" ? Germany's most famed concentration camp. When the same speaker dubbed the doctrine of atonement, "racially alien...
...Bank, with Germans in charge, and let them issue banknotes for a consideration. Belgians were next in favor and only this spring did the King of Kings give his Belgian Treasurer-General (in charge of customs) notice and bounce the leading German banker in Persia, pompous Herr Doktor Horschitz-Horst. The National Bank then became 100% Persian under a Director who. besides being His Majesty's personal favorite, has thoroughly studied banking methods abroad. His Excellency Riza Ghuli Khan Amir Chosrowi...
...witness box in which sat Frau Elizabeth Salm. "Just go on lying as you are," said His Honor. "Do you imagine we are capable of believing you were making coffee in your kitchen while in the next room your lodger was being shot?" The lodger was famed Horst Wessel. the student who adapted a German sea chanty into Nazidom's anthem and became the official brownshirt martyr after he was shot by Communists in Frau Salm's boarding house. The shooting of Horst Wessel by four Communists occurred in 1930 before Hitler's rise to power...