Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polish excesses toward Germans were "increasing in an alarming manner." In the village of Altdorf, said one report, "three Germans were beaten by Poles with clubs and wire whips and injured considerably because they spoke German." German divisions were moved up to Poland's western border. On their part, the Poles ordered Polish Nazis to take off their distinctive white socks, and moved new divisions into place opposite the German Army concentrations. In Danzig itself, newspapers reported that Adolf Hitler would be made an honorary citizen of the Free City on his birthday...
...from a bonanza, The Netherlands might be an economic burden to Germany. It is dependent upon imports for 30% of its foodstuffs. Germany can scarcely feed its own people. Most important, Dutch bankers finance with generous credits the largest part of Germany's raw-material purchases, and this trade would end when the guilder ceased to be the monetary unit of an independent country. Dutch neutrality was of crucial importance to Germany in the World War. Great shipments of materials passed through the Allied blockade -via the neutral Netherlands...
...many alumni have emerged from concentration camps with the same story to leave any further doubt that sadism and brutality are part & parcel of the concentration camp routine. The whipping post is used freely; men are forced to run while carrying heavy loads, are prodded by bayonets if they fall out of step. A sport of the guards is to throw Jewish boys into latrines and push their heads under with rifle butts...
There are four planetariums already operating in the U. S.-the Adler in Chicago, the Pels in Philadelphia, the Hayden in Manhattan, the Griffith in Los Angeles. All were financed in whole or part by philanthropists. So also is the new Buhl in Pittsburgh, financed out of a $13,000,000 legacy left to the Buhl Foundation by Henry Buhl Jr., founder of Pittsburgh's Boggs and Buhl department store, who died...
...Masks-the ancient substitute for make-up-appeared in Greek tragedy almost from the beginning. Their purposes: to express a type, depersonalize the actor, permit the actor to appear in more than one part...