Word: johanne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Angostura-Wuppermann Corp. is the U. S. branch of 112-year-old J. G. B. Siegert & Hijos (Sons) Ltd. of Trinidad. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, the firm's present managing director is a grandson of Founder Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a surgeon under Blücher at Waterloo. After Napoleon's fall Johann Siegert went to Angostura in Venezuela, began making his "elixir." Only known ingredients are gentian, common bitters base, and rum. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, Albert Siegert and Krast Siegert are the only three living men who know Angostura Bitters' formula. In case something should happen...
...favor as a portrayal of post-War confusion, reaching its climax when Dancer Elsa Kahl, as a laborer's wife, discards her drab clothes to join the women of the streets. With frothy moods Choreographer Jooss is less successful. A Ball in Old Vienna is only tritely pretty. Johann Strauss, Tonight! is a cluttered potpourri which does little more than show that Elsa Kahl can turn a cartwheel...
...portrait of two long-necked sisters, in the manner of David, by Sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, famed as the creator of the galloping chariot on top of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate...
...weeks ago the memoirs of two U. S. women of affairs painted dark portraits of Count Johann von Bernstorff, pre-War German Ambassador to the U. S. Countess de Chambrun in Shadows Like Myself (TIME, Sept. 28), included the Ambassador among the powerful, devious, tenacious conspirators of the German Embassy who influenced local elections, created social difficulties for the French Embassy. Mary Doyle in Life Was Like That described how she had been sent by the New York World to spy on Bernstorff during his absence from Washington in the hope of uncovering a journalistic sensation. Last week Bernstorff himself...
...without goading ambitions, when a feud between his family and the Bismarcks seemingly put an end to any diplomatic aspirations he might have held. Bernstorff's older brother had been recalled from Washington be cause he "showed more interest in the Y. M. C. A. than in politics." Johann Bernstorff spent eight years in the army before he got into the foreign service in Cairo, London, Belgrade, St. Petersburg. Giving few palpable pictures of his activity, Bernstorff expresses broad liberal views, sharply criticizes German foreign policy after Bismarck, tells a few conventional anecdotes to illustrate the aloofness...