Word: central
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Museum, and across the Isar River from Munich proper. Old friends greeted each other in the big, oblong beer hall-sanctum sanctorum of the Nazi Party, perhaps the best guarded room frequented by the best guarded man in the world. The veterans packed the balcony; pressed around the one central pillar supporting the entire ceiling; crowded to the very foot of the speaker's white rostrum. The big men-Hitler, Göebbels, Himmler, Frick, Hess, Ley, Rosenberg, Streicher, Brückner-were there on time (only Göring was absent, holding the fort in Berlin); so were...
Someone had apparently planted a high explosive bomb within, or in the attic above, the hall's central pillar. The explosion toppled the pillar, brought the ceiling down on the assembled Nazis' heads. Seven (including Maria Henle) were killed, 63 injured. Had the Führer stayed even for one glass of his special 1.0 beer, history might have taken a new course...
...stuffing of a decayed Thanksgiving turkey. In the orchestra pit the staid Metropolitan Opera orchestra surged and noodled conventionally through Wagner's foaming music. But the cavorting it accompanied would have turned a Wagnerian's hair white in a single act. No Tannhäuser was its central protagonist, but mad King Ludwig of Bavaria (Wagner's patron), who reared and reeled in the costume of Lohengrin. Before him, like something sired by George White out of Krafft-Ebing, pranced a bleached Venus (Nini Theilade), a hoop-pantalooned Lola Montez (Ludwig's grandfather's mistress...
...Central Railroad of New Jersey; New York Central; New Jersey & New York; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; Lehigh Valley; Pennsylvania; Reading; Erie; New York, Susquehanna & Western...
While American shipping concerns do not all have subsidiary organizations in other countries, any firm could set up a temporary "dummy" corporation in a Central or South American nation, and thus make a shift of registration a mere formality, he pointed...