Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German territory the Russians took for themselves the northern third of East Prussia, including that most Prussian city and key Baltic port, Königsberg. Already ensconced in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia (whose annexation by Russia is now virtually recognized by the other great powers), Russia now dominates the Baltic...
Minister to Prussia, was challenged by a Prussian officer of the guard. When Adams identified himself, the officer wanted to know what & where the United States might...
Since 1634, when Oberammergau's elders pledged perpetual production of the play at ten-year intervals (if God would spare their village from the plague), the schedule has been broken only three times: in 1870 by the Franco-Prussian War, in 1920 by the aftermath of World War I, in 1940 by World War II. The last performance, in 1934, celebrated the Play's tercentenary...
...Prussian-born Judge Prince has always had friends who couldn't let music alone either. In 1927 he gathered a few of them together in his Harlem apartment. When the neighbors and Mrs. Prince objected, Judge Prince moved his weekly rehearsals to a public-school building...
Died. Georg Kaiser, 67, German novelist and playwright (From Morn to Mid night), who was expelled by the Nazis in 1933 from the Prussian Academy of Art (along with Thomas Mann and Franz Werfel); in Ascona, Switzerland...