Word: platz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Lewellyn Powys, 55, third of the literary Powys brothers (the others, Theodore Francis and John Cowper), descendant of William Cowper and John Donne; of tuberculosis; in Davos Platz, Switzerland. Ill off and on for 30 years, Lewellyn Powys underscored in his writings (best known: Ebony and Ivory, Skin for Skin, The Cradle of God) a hedonistic design for living : "We should grow less involved in society and more deeply involved in existence...
...word of mouth. Vegetable and flower sellers, arriving to open their stalls in Berlin markets, promptly pooled their pfennigs to buy cheap brandy and new cider. French Premier Edouard Daladier was supposed by the jubilant Germans to have secured the "Armistice," and in Berlin's huckster-jammed Wittenberg Platz a tipsy citizen, balancing on a chair with glass in hand, bellowed a toast: "Daladier is smarter than we thought...
Meanwhile an estimated 1,133 streets and squares, notably Rathaus Platz in Vienna, acquired the name of Adolf Hitler. He delivered 96 public speeches, attended eleven opera performances (way below par), vanquished two rivals (Benes and Kurt von Schuschnigg, Austria's last Chancellor), sold 900,000 new copies of Mein Kampf in Germany besides selling it widely in Italy and Insurgent Spain. His only loss was in eyesight: he had to begin wearing spectacles for work. Last week Herr Hitler entertained at a Christmas party 7,000 workmen now building Berlin's new mammoth Chancellery, told them: "The next decade...
...droves of enthusiastic Nazis, including hundreds of members of Propaganda Minister Goebbels' "Strength through Joy" movement who had been granted specially reduced rates. The elaborate permanent stages formerly used for the Reinhardt Faust and Jedermann productions had been torn down, and the street name plates marking "Reinhardt Platz" and "Toscanini Hof" had been removed...
...Vienna, the state Burg-Theatre and Opera House, three Jewish-owned playhouses, the Society of the Friends of Music, the Vienna Symphony and the world-famed Vienna Philharmonic. Jewish Conductor Bruno Walter resigned as director of the Vienna Opera and as Nazis ripped down name plates on Max Reinhardt Platz in front of the Salzburg Festival Theatre, Jewish Regisseur Reinhardt severed his connections with the famed Salzburg festival...