Word: schild
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Some of them: Tilla Durieux, Elsie Hemis, Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Ernst Lubitsch, Joseph & Rudolph Schild-kraut...
...most efficiently exploited these gifts of their race in modern times? The House of Rothschild comes instantly to mind. One Amschel Moses, a peddler so obscure that he did not know his own surname, set up a shop in Jew Street, Frankfort, two centuries ago, with a rothes schild (red shield) over the door. From that advertisement the House of Rothschild takes its name. Today it stands for a family with, some say, two billion dollars in worldly goods, great banking houses in London, Vienna, Paris and the motto: Servare Modum, Finemque Tenere ("Be moderate, and never lose sight...