Word: karle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Riga timber merchant, Berlin emigrated to Britain as a young man and spent most of his adult life in or near Oxford. He speaks English, German, Russian, French, is an authority on Karl Marx, Greek philosophy, Russian literature and music, the U.S. Congress and politics. He was one of few men at the Embassy who foresaw Britain's Labor victory...
...born (1893) in drab, industrial Manchester, but not to drabness: he was the son of a well-to-do Jewish merchant. As a youth, he was enchanted by those sirens of British socialism, Beatrice and Sidney Webb, who were warbling their Fabian lays over the bleaching bones of Karl Marx. At Oxford, Laski joined the Fabian Society, campaigned for woman suffrage, was a brilliant student in his spare time. When World War I came, Laski disapproved, but tried to enlist. He was turned down because of a weak heart. He went to lecture at Canada's venerable McGill University...
...Karl Renner, 75 (whose provisional...
...Moscow radio accused the U.S. Army of showering luxuries upon Hermann Goring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Karl Doenitz and flocks of lesser lights in its custody. Actually, they were leading a rigidly simple life...
Marinka (music by Emmerich Kalman; book and lyrics by George Marion Jr. & Karl Farkas; produced by Jules J. Leventhal & Harry Howard) is the cinema Mayerling in routine operetta form-which means Mayerling with a happy ending but some fairly unhappy flourishes en route...