Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...education have gone to the Sorbonne. Lately, the German universities have been recovering prestige and U. S. tuition fees. Soon, unless the French portraits help prevent it, young U. S. scientists and philosophers will flock to Heidelberg, Gottingen, Leipzig, Berlin, as numerously as they did when Wilhelm was Der Kaiser and attending the Sorbonne was considered not the greatest of intellectual gestures...
Punch represents thousands of solid respectable British families. It is read in every quarter of the globe. It was Punch that first mourned the death of Lincoln; that published the famed cartoon, "Dropping the Pilot," when the young German Kaiser forced Bismarck to resign; that opposed the Irish Home Rulers; that grew most exercised over Mayor Thompson's (Chicago) anti-British antics...
Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, grandson of the onetime Kaiser, lately engaged to German Cinemactress Lili Damita, is listed as "Louis Ferdinand," student-laborer, in the Ford assembly plant in Los Angeles. He eats his lunches from paper bags. Last week he said he liked his job. Said he: "I'm just goofy-you understand that?-about it, although I do not know what my parents will do when they find...
Eagerly U. S. editors once played up cables from Imperial Austria, hinted daringly the senile eccentricities of Kaiser Franz, frankly glorified U. S. maidens privileged to be presented at his Court, and got out screaming extras when the suspicious, hidebound old Emperor was finally tricked into taking his first automobile ride by Wilhelm...
...pupil of Busoni, a follower of Debussy, Schönberg and Hindemith, is a prolific young man. In 1926 his Royal Palace was a sensation at the Berlin Opera. The Protagonist and The Czar Allows Himself to Be Photographed are recent one-act operas based on books by Georg Kaiser. Brecht, called "the German Kipling," is best known for his Die Hauspostille, a book of realistic ballads. The Lindbergh Flight will be broadcast when performed. Friends of the flyer say he will certainly not "listen...