Word: konditorei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picturesque Stuttgart were jampacked last week with 60,000 foreign-resident Germans, many from the U. S., gathered for the fifth Congress of Germans Abroad. But the stolid citizens of the town were not interested in the milling ansländer. Instead they pushed their way into the konditorei shops, gorged themselves on fancy cakes, coffee with plumes of whipped cream floating on top. For months, since stanch-bellied Minister President Hermann Goring inaugurated the Four-Year Plan for Nazi self-sufficiency, the Germans have been deprived of their whipped cream. In Munich, Berlin, where critical tourists foregather, such delicacies...
...March the little Tsar himself left Sofia incognito?left behind a joyous and expectant people, thousands of whom had put Princess Giovanna's picture in one corner of their windowpanes and Tsar Boris' in the other. Sofia cafés were hastily renamed Konditorei Giovanna. Delighted Bulgarian editors "learned on highest authority" that Pope Pius XI had agreed to the following compromise: all offspring of Roman Catholic Princess Giovanna except her first-born male would be reared as Roman Catholics; but the premier male, as Crown Prince of Bulgaria, would espouse the Eastern Orthodox religion in order to comply with...