Word: korthaus
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...short time ago Mrs. Coffin, wife of the U. S. Consul General at Berlin, Miss Goldsmith, Assistant U. S. Trade Commissioner to Germany, Mrs. Conger, wife of the Berlin correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, were traveling in a Cologne-Berlin train. Into their compartment jumped Herr Kurt Korthaus, a member of the Reichstag. He objected to the number of bags on the rack. He told the ladies to remove them. They said they were too heavy, suggested that he call the conductor to remove them or do it himself...
...conductor rebuked the ladies for contradicting Herr Korthaus. In the dispute which followed, the Reichstager used insulting language and was ably sponsored by the conductor...
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