Word: westphalen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...denounced as "all flat and formless in feeling; nothing natural about them; everything up in the air." The poet was Karl Heinrich Marx, stocky, dark-haired, active son of a well-to-do Jewish lawyer from the Rhineland town of Trier. His 22-year-old sweetheart was Jenny von Westphalen, close friend of his older sister, daughter of a highly-placed official whose family had won its title for military service in the Seven Years War. Disliking the university, Marx signed up for lectures which he did not attend, fitfully studied a remarkable variety of subjects, tried to found...
...journals. Engels had also begun his literary career by writing bad verse. Their first meeting was unfriendly, since Marx identified Engels with a group of irresponsible Berlin bohemians who had advocated Socialism by getting into fights in brothels and playing tricks on clergymen. In 1843 Marx married Jenny von Westphalen, took her to Paris, met Heine, Proudhon and other Socialists, continued his attacks on the Prussian State until the Prussian Government succeeded in having him expelled from France. Living in Brussels, he met Engels again, collaborated with him, was arrested after the French revolution of 1848, when the King...
Meanwhile regularly scheduled plane service between Germany and South America is also to be carried on via the S. S. Westphalen, stationed in the South Atlantic, 820 mi. off British Gambia. To eliminate the mid-ocean stop, test flights will soon be made with flying boats capable of covering the 1,864-mi. with cargo...
...that mail plane service across the South Atlantic would start Feb. 3. On that day a Luft Hansa flying boat is scheduled to take off from Stuttgart, Germany. She will roar south and west to Cadiz, the Canary Islands, West Africa, then shoot across the ocean to the seadrome Westphalen, riding in midocean (TIME, Nov. 20). On the fourth day she will alight at Natal, Brazil-a trip which requires nine days by present airplane-&-steamer service. First eastward flight is slated for Feb. 7. A fortnightly schedule in each direction was planned...
...tiny British colony where they now broiled. Ahead of them lay a 1,875-mi. salt water hop to Natal, Brazil, the last ocean-crossing of their homeward trek. Somewhere near the Equator they might pass within striking distance of Germany's seadrome, the S. S. Westphalen. The heat and Mrs. Lindbergh's homesickness combined to increase their impatience...