Word: moritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...team of 13 sailed for Europe to compete in the Second Winter Olympic Games. Their departure received no attention whatever. They gave a mediocre account of themselves at St. Moritz. They sailed home again with few better grounds for satisfaction than the fact that almost no one knew what they had been...
Flagstad was 36 when she ventured beyond the Scandinavian boundaries to Bayreuth, sang small roles the first summer, Sieglinde the next. On the strength of her Bayreuth appearances, Gatti-Casazza and Conductor Artur Bodanzky asked her to come to St. Moritz and sing for them there. The room was small, her voice muffled by heavy hangings. But a new Wagnerian was badly needed and she was given a contract. When Conductor Bodanzky queried her about her acting, she answered modestly: "I don't do very much...
...James Paul ("Jimmy") Warburg stepped into the glare of the New Deal not long after he was made vice chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co. in 1932. The sharp-witted son of the late great Paul Moritz Warburg stood close to President Roosevelt's financial ear in those first dazzling days, changed sides at the London Economic Conference in 1933, has since devoted his energies to a liberal and enlightened presentation of the case against the New Deal. Thanking his directors for tolerating his long and frequent absences from his desk at No. 40 Wall St.. Jimmy...
...with alarm. The new Foreign Secretary, so far as they know, has no views on foreign affairs, many on dancing at swank night clubs, tennis playing, and fancy figure skating, a pastime which he pursues in skin-tight black professional figure-skater costume not only at St. Moritz in winter but in London at all seasons on socialite Grosvenor House's rink...
...family of Jews in Germany wrote to relatives, "We have a wonderful life. Not a hair on the head of any Jew has been touched and Hitler is bringing us toward a better future. Uncle Moritz, who expressed the opposite opinion, is being buried tomorrow...