Word: unter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work to enjoy life. They are densely ignorant of our writers, but have profound respect for a Vanderbilt. Europe has copied our worst things- the ugly stupidity of our iron civilization. She is sacrificing her originality to wear clothes like an inhabitant of the gopher prairies, to make Unter den Linden look like Main Street and elect a Babbitt Mayor of the Rue de la Paix. The English language is revered over here as Latin was in the Middle Ages. . . . America must not grow too proud. After all, we are a great country, but not a great people. And everything...
Thronging Berliners waved British flags and cried "Hoch!" joyfully as Edward of Wales arrived at Berlin by airplane last week, and strolled down Unter den Linden, He wore the natty uniform of a British naval officer, and thus clad was presented to Chancellor Wilhelm Marx by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz. Who but this shy, almost wistful prince could have made Germans forget the War and throng around him in a tribute to his personality as miraculous as it was sincere...
...French, Italian and Japanese representatives who were squabbling about disarmament as members of an important League committee. With a voice and manner gently reproving, Count von Bernstorff called upon the Great Powers to disarm here and now down to the minute Post-War armament of Germany. Up and down Unter Den Linden, Germans commented on the Count's speech with ponderous approval, seemed unstirred by the supreme irony of the situation in which he spoke...
Some three years ago the jeweled crown of H. M. Augusta Victoria, late Kaiserin of Germany, vanished mysteriously from the Imperial palace, Unter den Linden. Since this pompous trinket of gold and jewels is valued at $875,000, many a detective has been vainly seeking it. Last week a clue was found...
...half an hour he cantered, galloped, walked. Later, in his motor again, he dashed through the streets of Rome, as Wilhelm der Zweite once sped down Unter den Linden-giving way only to the Municipal Fire Department...