Word: karle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squint-eyed old man. His son was a cripple. He had sold his horse to buy bread. He now had nothing left but a dilapidated farm, a bank book showing 50,000 devaluated marks tied up in his native Germany. Into a WPAgency he trudged, gave his name as Karl Goering, shruggingly remarked that he is a cousin of peacocky No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring...
...party, hunting in Tanganyika, included Hemingway and his wife a professional English guide named Jackson Phillips, a friend and rival hunter called Karl who always triumphed over Hemingway. When Hemingway killed a rhinoceros at 300 yards, making a beautiful shot that filled him with elation, Karl casually brought down one twice as large. When Hemingway traveled without his guide into wilder country to bag a kudu the real object of the hunt, Karl shot a much nobler specimen almost without effort. Since Green Hills of Africa is an attempt to write "an absolutely true book." Hemingway does not conceal...
Both Winthrop and Dunster have engaged syncopating outfits of Jimmie Carmedy, but Jimmy himself will wield the baton at the Puritan frolic. Undaunted, the Dunster committee has announced that their orchestra will be under the direction of Karl Kunze...
Dean of correspondents covering the war is high-strung, sagacious Karl von Wiegand of Universal Service, who postponed writing his memoirs to go to Ethiopia. Assisting him is Wynant Davis Hubbard, onetime (1919-20) Harvard tackle, who in 35 years has been a miner, missionary, cartographer, plumber, dentist, undertaker, explorer, geologist, big-game hunter, animal psychologist, author, cineman, scientist...
Judges of the photographs and drawings are Langdon Warner '03, assistant curator of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Frank R. Frapie '98, editor of "American Photography," and of the paintings Frederick B. Robinson '31, of the Fogg Art Museum and Karl Zerbe...