Word: karle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Belgium. Elizabeth Queen of the Belgians "is one of the most interesting of European Royalties ... a daughter of the Duke Karl Theodor of Bavaria, the famous philanthropist and eye doctor. . . . The Queen like all the Wittelsbachs is many-sided in her accomplishments: she is a clever violinist, a great reader, an admirable horsewoman, a good shot. . . . She is the only 'flying' Queen, and she thinks as little of flight as most people do of a ride in an omnibus...
Last week, Professor Karl T. Compton reported that he had put molecular hydrogen into a tungsten tube, heated it to 2,800 degrees Centigrade, thereby dissociating it into atomic hydrogen, and shot into this a current of electrons from a hot filament similar to those used in a radio tube. The energy of this current was readily reckoned in volts, and as the voltage was increased things began to happen to the hydrogen atoms it encountered. Suddenly they began to emit radiation of a definite wavelength, measurable as a single line in a light spectrum. The hydrogen atoms had been...
...Miracle. Chicago had its longest coattails pressed, its tallest collars starched. It bought new gowns. It ordered orchids and gardenias. It swept down blustery Michigan Avenue to the Auditorium, entered a cathedral and was struck with awe and wonderment. It found that Karl Volloemer's great pantomime, as presented by Messrs. Comstock and Gest, staged by Max Reinhardt and acted by Lady Diana Manners, Iris Tree and Chicago's own Elinor Patterson, was everything that London and Manhattan had said...
...guests last week of Mary Louise Curtis Bok* at the new Chamber Music Hall of the Library of Congress. The occasion was the first public concert by the Curtis Quartet, organization composed of members of the faculty of the Curtis Institute ot Music in Philadelphia. The quartet, composed of Karl Flesch, Emanuel Zetlin (violinists), Louis Bailly (violist), Felix Salmond, musicians all of them before they were pedagogs, played with great skill and understanding numbers by Haydn, Beethoven and Bach, won much honest applause from the invited audience...
...Karl Stingl (Bavarian People's Party) Posts and Telegraphs * R. Krohne (German People's Party) Transportation...