Word: karle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...child. Behind her tripped a sweep of dancing children to join the admiration of the miracle which Isadora's art had conjured?then the music swelled and a mystic and dramatic dance began. Among the children was noticed a little blonde eight-year-old girl, Mary Peters, daughter of Karl Peters, Chief of the Cheka, or the Robespierre of the Russian Revolution. Her little red tunic was "like a drop of blood in the spotlight " ?a reminder of another side of Communism...
...After the revolution of November, 1918, Rosa Luxembourg, Jewish Pole, and lifelong revolutionary agitator, became an editor of Die Rote Fahne, and through that paper she was responsible with one Karl Liebknecht for the street fighting in Berlin in January, 1919. Both were imprisoned in The Hotel Eder and in transferring them to another prison the hostile crowd shot Liebknecht, brutally attacked the diminutive Rosa and finally shot her while she was insensible from the injuries she had sustained. Her body was thrown Into a canal and only recovered months later...
Died. Wilhelm Pfannkuch, 82, oldest member of the German Social-Democratic Party, personal friend of the late Karl Marx (1818-1883), in Berlin. He was Honorary President of the National Assembly at Weimar, 1919, which adopted the present constitution of the German Republic...
Specialization-in the person of Karl Pfaffman, dropkicker-defeated Princeton in the first of the so-called Big Three (Eastern) games. Harvard rushed the tall and scrawny Pfaffman into the game a moment after Combs, also Harvard, fell on a loose ball. Pfaffman kicked the goal. Later Princeton lost 2 more points on a safety. Final score: Harvard 5, Princeton...
...other three officers who were elected last night are: vice-president, Karl Slade Pfaffmann '24 of Quincy; clay Hollister Jr. '24 of Grand Rapids, Michigan, secretary; and John Henry Sherburne Jr. '24 of Brookline, treasurer...