Word: berliners
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Berlin, officers said stiffly that "it has never been the practice of the German fighting forces to disturb the quiet of that holy day," and strongly implied that a spontaneous Christmas truce is possible this year at least in regard to German bombings. During World War I in various individual sectors of the Western Front there was often such spontaneous Christmas truce as the Pope last week thought well to mention. But a formal, negotiated 1940 Christmas truce was seemingly ruled out by Winston Churchill fortnight ago in the House of Commons. To a question from Laborite Thomas Ellis Naylor...
...Germany gasoline is allowed only to persons with important business; taxis are not permitted to take passengers on pleasure missions. Berlin's shop windows are full of beautiful goods marked "Not for Sale." Berliners have money, but cannot buy many things they want, such as bicycles, precision instruments, gold objects, cameras, radios, gasoline, clothing. (Each German man is allowed one overcoat, must turn in his old one when buying the new.) And so they buy theatre and concert tickets, books, champagne, and the handsome ladies who frequent the Taverne and Jockey Clubs...
...articles for British Allied Newspapers Ltd. She wrote that Hitler considers Mussolini "the only other great man'' and that in her opinion II Duce "felt like a nursemaid taking care of a victorious child" during some of his meetings with the Führer. Hitler, riding through Berlin beside Mussolini, according to Miss Wagner, "gave the general impression of a fussy spinster seated beside the first real man who had come...
...Grebanier had become fed up with the party, tried to resign, was finally expelled instead as a "Trotskyite." Today, thanks to the Moscow-Berlin pact, he told the committee, Communist membership at Brooklyn College has "dwindled to the vanishing point...
...room in her stocking feet, dictating at the top of her voice. Her notes are usually unintelligible to anyone but herself. Recent sample: "Willie going to war. Catalina and sleep. Stinkey Pinky. Fred. Claudette. He has to have three steps to get on the love. Betcha heights after ride. Berlin. Test Pilot. Marie Antoinette. Mrs. Chauncey Alcott. Biggest sin is not knowing who directing...