Word: westphalians
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...results are still successful from the Government's point of view. Faced with the necessity of going before a hostile Reichstag, last week they tried another showdown. There were many Cabinet conferences, then lean Chancellor Franz von Papen went down to Münster to make a speech before the Westphalian Peasants' Congress. He minced no words. First came an attack on Handsome Adolf for his manifesto on the Beuthen death sentences (see above...
...immaculate, full-toned technique, an interpretative sense marked by the same marvelous simplicity and restraint that he has succeeded in preserving in his pupil, young Yehudi Menuhin. In Manhattan the Busch name is familiar because of Adolf's brother Fritz (they were the sons of a famed Westphalian violin-maker), who conducted the New York Symphony for a time. In Manhattan next week Violinist Busch will be given an enviable debut.* Conductor Arturo Toscanini, who usually refuses to have soloists on his programs, has invited Busch to play at his first concert of the season. Toscanini and Busch...
...Berlin, at the hub of the pinwheel, pertinent facts were seen to be: 1) Rhenish and Westphalian producers of semi-finished iron and steel products cut prices 3% last week; 2) under an arbitral ruling by Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald (Time, June 9) the Westphalian producers won last week the right to reduce 200,000 workmen's wages 7½% next month; 3) in a trade circular the Westphalian metal syndicate urged other German industrialists to cut prices and wages, but for the time being this scheme remained a proposal, possibly a trend...
Kitty Marion's father, a harsh German (Westphalian), would bang her childish head with the knob of his long German pipe, to show her he was family boss. When she was 15, a stocky red-headed youngster, she ran away from the Westphalian home to England. After, drab vicissitudes there she became an actress of small parts, famed in a minor way for her vigorous championing of underdogs. One day she heard Emmeline Pankhurst speak on suffragism. Miss Marion* became a militant suffraget. To break her first plate-glass window she was obliged to throw two bricks, because...
...doctor did not operate, instead gave Fürlein an electric shock which cured him. When he came apologetically to say goodbye to the Whistlers, their congratulations were forced; they never afterward spoke of him. The Bavarian died, very slowly. The Prussian died quickly, during an operation. The Westphalian boy and the Englishman were healed; by the time the Englishman was exchanged they did not want to leave each other...