Word: loreleis
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...Lorelei Song. The Big Four had agreed to meet in Paris May 23 to consider "questions relating to Germany and the problems arising out of the situation in Berlin, including also questions of currency in Berlin." What lay behind this bland clause was clear. Russia wanted control of Germany. Having failed to get it through the Berlin blockade, Russia would try again, with different tactics, at the Paris conference...
...mosquito's love song is only faintly audible to the human ear. But to male mosquitoes it is apparently overwhelming. Dr. Kahn turned on his loudspeaker. A wave of excitement hummed through the swamp. On eager wings the males zoomed toward the trap. Like mariners wrecked by Lorelei's song, the male mosquitoes smacked against the electrified screen...
Died. Edna Hibbard, 47, stage comedienne; in Manhattan. She made her biggest hit as Dorothy, the mercenary brunette companion of the mercenary blonde Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...
...Newshawks who few weeks ago reported that Germany's famed folk song, Heinrich Heine's Lorelei, had been banned because its author was a Jew, discovered that Dr. Ley had nonetheless named his newborn daughter Lore...
...Rhythm," a leavened version of O. Henry's "The Badge of Policeman O'Roon," bases its claim for attention on the physical vigor, imperviousness to hard falls, and mobile face of Beatrice Lillie. The action spirals about the efforts of Lorelei Dodge-Blodgett (Miss Lillie) and Bill Rensem (Bing Crosby) to wither the romance of her niece with a gambler. The check rein of Will Hayes may be partially responsible for Miss Lillie's failure to amuse as readily on the screen as on the stage. The ocillades and gestures on which she relies appear only crude before the camera...