Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four years ago the U.S. Seventh Army rolled triumphantly into Munich. Last week, from the city that was Naziism's birthplace and shrine, TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes cabled...
...country's soft air of calm was deceptive. Like every Bavarian city and village, Munich went mad last week. While wind and snow whistled through the scarred streets and hollow buildings, along the avenues and through bright windows could be seen gaudy devils and silvery angels, Spanish ladies with black mantillas, Egyptian pharaohs in gold brocade, Hawaiian dancers in tights, bra and lei. Jazz bands blared in every cabaret and public dancehall...
These last two days before Lent were the crashing, climactic orgy of Munich's Fasching-the first full-dress, no-holds-barred carnival after a decade of war and ruin. In the whole Fasching time (which the bold began the second week in January), Munich has writhed and staggered through some 2,500 public and 25,000 private parties; the city has pocketed some 150,000 marks in entertainment taxes. This year, Munich citizens had decided that nothing mattered more than a successful Fasching: families pawned beds, shoes and watches to buy costumes; impoverished baronesses slashed their last evening...
...Michael & the Zoot-Suits. Ash Wednesday Eve I drove through the most devastated streets of Munich, through rubble lanes barely wide enough for a car to pass, to a factory standing in darkness. We climbed a rickety outside stairs to a second-floor door that opened into a garish six-room apartment, slyly constructed by the factory owner in violation of housing laws. Our monocled host greeted us with tipsy cheeriness as his guests oohed and aahed over his gay shirt pasted with cutouts of Esquire girls. Inside the rooms were assembled, in monstrous taste, old tapestries, carved Italian statues...
Back in the gay days of Manchuria and Munich, when the local R.O.T.C. was still preparing its future cavalry officers with the aid of a band of sturdy polo ponies, Harvard University was possessed of a glorious polo team. Organized as the undergraduate Polo Association the college poloists registered slashing triumphs over Williams, Princeton, and Cornell, and usually climaxed their season with a match against Yale before a cheering throng in Chicago...