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Inquired the German Foreign Office of the U. S. Department of State, "Will Baron Doktor Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz (preetveets) und Gaffron be persona grata to you as Ambassador...
...General Wilhelm Heye, Chief of the German Army, to be presented...
Herr Piscator, famed German theatrical producer, was hardly disturbed, certainly not flustered, according to those who know him, when last week he received a threat from His ex-Imperial Majesty Wilhelm II to the effect that if he persisted in having him impersonated by the famed actor, Ferdinand Bonn, in his forthcoming play, Rasputin, by Count Alexis Tolstoy, the onetime Kaiser would have no recourse other than legal prosecution...
Herr Piscator smiled, mumbled something about "Wilhelm" growing reizbar (touchy) in his old age, stated that he saw no difference in the former All Highest being photographed for the cinema (which the Emperor-King Wilhelm is always willing to do), declared that he would produce the play and "damn the consequences...
...honking, roaring, droning, whizzing escort fell off his machine and was badly hurt. Last week some gas merchants held a convention in Chicago and one of their honking, droning, whizzing, roaring escort ran down and hurt two women in the crowded Loop district. Last week also, Prince Wilhelm of Sweden visited Chicago. Before arriving he begged the Chicago police not to insist upon a honking, droning, whizzing, roaring escort for him; not, at least, to equip the escort with sirens. Prince Wilhelm said that he would find "such a racket very annoying." So the Chicago City Council, which has listened...