Word: platz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin. Berlin's Police President Karl Zörgiebel forbade all outdoor demonstrations on Der Tag. All the more determined, Communist bands assembled early in various parts of the city. Leather-helmeted police swinging rubber clubs quickly cleared the Potsdamer Platz and Unter den Linden, but the Communists, acting according to a pre-arranged plan, concentrated in two suburban workers' districts, Wedding...
Bonfire. Soon a mob trampled through shrubbery and flowers in the Schmerling-Platz, then rushed the vast, imposing Justiz-Palast. Neat clerks and bearded officials were seized by burly rioters and thoroughly tousled. Mobmen ransacked the Palace for papers of every sort, dumping them without discrimination on a large, roaring bonfire. From this the woodwork of the great building ignited, spurting tall flames. Throughout the crowd men still mouthed and gibbered, "JUSTICE. . . . Justice...
...MAGIC MOUNTAIN?Thomas Mann?Knopf (2 vol. $6). "An unassuming young man was traveling, in midsummer, from his native city of Hamburg to Davos-Platz in the Canton of the Grisons, on a three weeks' visit," Soon after his arrival, he perceives that his cigars have a flat taste. Before his three weeks are over, he has a bad cold. Before his return to Hamburg, to a world at war, he has spent seven years in a mortal fairyland...
...Goldwyn-Mayer did not like this. Their companies had joined a year ago to lend Ufa, Germany's largest cinema producer and controller of 130 theatres in the Reich, $4,000,000. The money was safe, being protected by a mortgage on the great Ufa theatre in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. But such articles were not polite; they were invidious...
Docile, stupid, Mae Jordan has toiled, swept. Last week, one Dr. Peter Rusk, kindly Samaritan, chiropractor, discovered the conditions of Mae's slavery, called upon Klein and Platz, blacked Mr. Klein's eye, punched Mr. Platz's midriff...