Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent visit to Sweden, strutting General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, Premier of Prussia and Germany's No. 2 Nazi, laid an enormous, swastika-shaped contraption of laurel branches on the tombstone of his epileptic wife.* Last week an irate anti-Nazi raiding party entered the cemetery, carried off the Goring laurel swastika and left this note behind...
...Brown Book of the Hitler Terror, prepared by a committee chairmanned by British Laborite Lord Marley, appears a photostatic copy of a certificate signed by Stockholm's Police Doctor Karl Lundberg on April 16, 1926: "Captain Göring is a morphia addict and his wife Frau Carin Göring, nee Baroness Fock, suffers from epilepsy. Their home must therefore be regarded as unfitted for her son Thomas...
...Town Hall organ watching her play her encores with Svengali-like intentness. He was her father who might have been a concert violinist if the War had not intervened. When Ruth was 2 he bought her a $10 toy piano. She wanted a "big one." He sold a diamond ring and got it for her. At 5 she had a repertoire of 200 pieces, could transpose them into any key. Josef Hofmann offered her a scholarship at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, but when he turned her over to an assistant Father Slenczynski packed her up and took...
...been at every horse show since. So has his assistant, lean, wrinkled Eddie Bauchard who trotted round the galleries in 1883 telling the gentlemen that smoking was forbidden. Nowadays he goes the circuit from Florida to Toronto, from horse show to horse show calling horses into the ring. Eddie Bauchard is as familiar to horsemen as Announcer Joe Humphries is to prizefighters. Impressive Reginald W. Rives, treasurer of the Association and amateur coachman, is another famed oldtimer. Treasurer Rives has spent much of his life looking and acting like a character in one of the sportin' novels of Robert...
Next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock in the Germanic Museum, Max Montor, well-known German actor, will present before an opening meeting of the German Club part of Goethe's "Faust," the ring episode from Lessing's "Nathan der Weise," and part of some modern German play. Herr Montor will act out all the characters. He is said, moreover, to know by memory all the parts in at least 50 famous German plays...