Word: verein
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...Verein Einsamer Kriegerfrauen (League of Lonely War Women) wishes to remind German soldiers that there is still one commodity at home not on the ration list. Circulars disseminated by this forthright organization, picked up by Allied troops in captured German positions, read as follows: "Dear Front Soldier: When will you come back on leave? . . . Back at home we know of your heroic struggle ; however, we do understand that even the bravest get tired and that they need a soft pillow, tenderness and real pleasure...
Beer and singing are the mainstays of the German Club, or Verein Turmwaechter, which whoops and hollers its joy from the Lowell House Tower Room at regular intervals. Practically unaffected by the war, the club is entirely disconnected from the Germany of today...
Founded in 1930 by James M. Hawkes, former faculty instructor in German, the club is modeled after the German students' clubs that Hawkes found around Europe in the 'good old days." The Turmwaechter replaced the Deutsches Verein, which died during the first World...
...Deutsches Verein, which the Verein Turmwaechter succeeded, went in for acting and produced several German plays in downtown Boston. Among the graduates of the Deutsches Verein was H.V. Kaltenborn, who, no matter how much it is denied, was an officer in the old organization...
Flautist's Kampf. Among many prominent Pierians was first violin Nicholas Longworth (also member of the Porcellian Club), later Speaker of the House of Representatives. At the same time (1890) Liberal Journalist Oswald Garrison Villard (also member of the Deutscher Verein) played second fiddle...