Word: wurtemberg
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...entirely sympathetic one. A man who subjugates every other desire, including that of love, to his desire for power is hardly a lovable character: yet Veidt makes him so. An orchid, or its eighteenth century equivalent, is certainly due Frank Vesper for his performance as the Duke of Wurtemberg, Suss's master. He fits perfectly into the background of Rebecca door-ways and flying cupids. His amorous advisees are suitably unsubtle. Pamela Ostrer is distinctively beautiful in her part as Suss's daughter, but Cedric Hardwick is somewhat disappointing as the rabbi Gabriel. The only other character of importance...
...post-election sensation was the taking into "protective custody" (often the prelude to a Nazi prison camp) of H. R. H. Duke Albrecht, head of the former Royal House of Wurtemberg, because he refused to vote. Jailors of prison camps proudly reported that the Communists, Socialists, Jews and other anti-Hitlerites in their custody had voted "Ja" in nearly all cases. Thus at the dread prison camp in Brandenburg only 1.2% of the prisoners plucked up courage to vote "Nein...
...Stuttgart museum wrote to the University because of a request it had received from the University of Paris, which is making a study of the Miocene fish, and wished to have the type fossils which Finanrath Eser of Stuttgart had collected near Wurtemberg, Germany...
Dean quarter-back Wurtemberg...
...Yale. Next to him, McClung did the most effective work. He gained through the centre repeatedly, and towards the end of the last half made a beautiful rush of twenty yards. Morrison and McBride both fumbled badly back of the line, though the latter's punting was very good. Wurtemberg played steadily and well at quarterback. In the rush line, Heffelfinger, Rhodes and Stagg did the best work, with the exception of Gill. The teams were as follows...