Word: wir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quickly scribbled the answer from memory and my college German: Nein, sagte der Bauer, wir haben kein Bett, aber Sie konnen mit Baby schlafen'. An instant later our last cylinder was on its way to the German lines...
...causing a faint squeak to be broadcast over the radio to all Germany by the great Koenigswusterhausen Station. Then came the triumphant clang of the clapper itself, followed by the roar of the crowds. "Deutschland! Deutschland ueber Alles!" they chanted, and then joined in the old hymn "Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich." Lifting their hands they took an oath to German unity proposed by Herr Adenauer, Ober-Burgomaster of Cologne. From President von Hindenburg at Berlin came a message which the Herr Ober-Burgomaster read amid acclaim: "At midnight the hour of freedom strikes for the first zone...
...boomed its dull, monotonous roar, the crowd became bareheaded, two minutes' silence was observed with reverential solemnity. Then, thousands of melancholy voices sang the old German hymn: Wir treten zum Beten. As the vibrant notes of the hymn found thundering echoes of grief in thousands of hearts, tears welled, men and women allegedly fainted?not from heat, for it was cold?not from crowd roughness, for there was order?but from grief...
Berlin received its first shipment of "real" bananas in a year. The word "real" was inserted in the despatch to prevent confusion with the well known German song, Ach, wir haben keinen bannanen, heute. Shipments arrived from Holland and England and 60,000 cases were placed on the market at the Hamburg docks. Heretofore the anti-luxury act has forbidden bananas, oranges...
...program is as follows: Choral Prelude, "Wir Glauben All' Bach Prelude to Cantata No. 106 Bach Prelude to Cantata No. 29 Bach Professor Davison Invocation. "To An Old Picture" Wolf Prayer Wolf "O had I Jubal's Lyre" Handel Mrs. Winternitz Pastorale Franck Bourree Handel Professor Davison Scripture Reading. Romance Debussy Recitative et Air de Lia ("L'Enfant Prodique") Debussy Mrs. Winternitz Scherzo (Second Symphony) Vierno Evening Harmonies Karg-Elert Finale in B-flat Franck Professor Davison