Word: nuremberg
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Adolf Hitler in a gaberdine pranced into hoary, high-spired Nuremberg last week for seven days of such pageantry and triumph as might befit the coronation of a Holy Roman Emperor. To heighten the excitement not even crown jewels were omitted...
...over the Fatherland last week tourists leaped to their feet at sound of the Nazi anthem, raised their right arms as Nazi banners passed. They knew that five U. S. tourists who spoke no German had been beaten by Storm Troopers in quaint old Nuremberg for standing motionless and puzzled when ordered in German to salute...
...Wagner's Die Meistersinger a contest is held to determine which of the singing citizens of Nuremberg is most worthy of Eva, daughter of Pogner, rich goldsmith who heads the local guild of mastersingers. In Manhattan's Knabe Hall one afternoon last week 200 New Yorkers attended a similar contest sponsored by Tenor Lauritz Melchior and Berthold Neuer of Wm. Knabe & Co. to discover a native "heroic tenor.''* At first it looked like another publicity stunt. Knabe Co., purveyor of pianos to the Metropolitan Opera, offered a prize of a Baby Grand. Melchior...
...made of pine, Paris' Notre Dame, Rome's St. Peter's and Santa Croce and a monastery at Reichenau, Germany each claim large fragments. The Three Nails, according to Catholic authorities, are represented today by some 30 enshrined at Rome, Venice, Aix-la-Chapelle, Madrid, Trier, Nuremberg, Prague, Paris, Milan and Monza. A lance thought to be the one with which Longinus, Roman centurion, pierced Christ's side while he hung on the cross, is preserved at St. Peter's. Unduplicated anywhere outside of St. Peter's is Veronica's veil on which...
Adolf Hitler, with a fine instinct for an "incident," last week hastened to Nuremberg with Colonel-General Werner von Blomberg, his Minister of Defense, and General Kurt von Hammerstein, Commander of the Reichswehr. He ordered a state funeral for Private Schumacher. Bareheaded, he led the parade. He delivered the funeral oration, laid a huge laurel wreath on the unlucky private's grave...