Word: johannes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adriatic (White Star) ? Arthur Hornblow, playwright, dramatic critic; five European Managers of the Remington Typewriter Co.; one Johann Romitch, Austrian stowaway, who hid on the Adriatic leaving Manhattan three weeks ago, was sent back on the boat by British Alien Officers, cannot be landed in the U. S., "may have to be carried back and forth from Manhattan to Liverpool for years...
...commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake." The fine old figure of the Emperor Franz Josef flits through a large section of the book, together with many crowned and titled European celebrities and our own Roosevelt. At Ischl, Jeritza sang before the Emperor, in Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus. "How he applauded! In the second act I sang the very brilliant Czardas, with its fiery, passionate frischka dance close. When I ended the Emperor clapped and did not stop until I sang the number a second time. Then we-he and I-repeated...
...those who find it inconvenient to attend the orchestra concerts of a week in the music season." How many such must there be! The work comprised 14 quotations from Beethoven, seven from Tschaikowski, three each from Dvorak and Brahms, two each from Schubert and Liszt, and one each from Johann Strauss, Mozart, Franck, Mahler, Bizet, Verdi, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Mascagni. The mixing of musical drinks could not go much farther. And the audience said: "Delightful...
Thomas Buddenbrook. The son of the younger Johann. Even if he has a scornful way of lifting one of his eyebrows and a fondness for quoting Heine, he too is able at business. True, it is under his management that the family comes to grief. But that is because being a Buddenbrook now involves responsibilities that are too much...
...Story. In 1835, with old Johann at the head of the family, the Buddenbrooks are at the height of their prosperity. This prosperity is maintained by the younger Johann. But as the third generation grows up, you see signs of its decline. Even Thomas' energy cannot repair the damage done by Christian's wasting and by Antonie's two disastrous marriages. He does manage to keep up appearances and even to be elected Senator. But when in 1875 he dies, with no capable successor, the business has to be wound up and the end has come...