Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considerably. She had made six trips to the Continent. She watched Hitler haranguing his followers as early as 1930; in 1937 and 1938 she observed the rebuilding of the German war machine. She was familiar with most of the major news centers. During the historic days that led to Munich, she was again in Germany, crossing to London in time to hear Prime Minister Chamberlain's famed "peace for our time" speech to the House of Commons. She also visited Latin America and Canada...
...drive, which is being held from February 13 to 16, will benefit the Salzburg Seminar and the University of Munich, the clothing to go to the Seminar and the books to Munich...
California's Senator Bill Knowland, just back from a visit to China's retreating Nationalist armies, warned: "Munich certainly should have taught us that appeasement of aggression, then as now, is but surrender on the installment plan." To this ailing Arthur Vandenberg added a restrained, nonpartisan postscript. "The Formosan question is presently clarified," he said, "but it is not settled...
Brooks House this week asked students not to sell their books at the end of the term, so that texts may be shipped to the University of Munich, Salzburg Seminar, and other European institutions...
...incredibly rich" land-owning Rumanian father and a German mother, in school he used to study scores instead of his Latin, hiding them on his lap in the classroom. He studied piano, cello and violin ("The piano is the instrument I play least badly"), later studied composition at the Munich Conservatory. By the time he was 21 he was conducting at the Leipzig Opera House; at 29 he was general manager of the Bucharest Opera. In 1944, the Nazis interned both Jonel and his writer wife for refusing to declare themselves pro-German. Liberated...