Word: der
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German press, which has been carrying on a vitriolic campaign against Czechoslovakia to aid the Sudeten Germans, splashed the Cheb slayings in blood-red headlines. BRUTAL MURDER OF TWO GERMANS BY CZECHS, screamed Der Angriff, newssheet of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels PRAGUE'S APPALLING BLOOD GUILT...
That night in Naples' famed old San Carlo Opera, now brilliantly refurbished, Der Fuhrer, Il Re and Il Duce sat through the extremely loud Aïda, which is all about the daughter of a King of Ethiopia...
First Day. An Italian stiletto, or "Fascist Honor Dagger" as it is called, was worn by Adolf Hitler, emerging on the first morning of his visit, after having received Benito Mussolini for a half-hour conference at the King's Palace. Der Fuhrer laid a wreath at the Pantheon (royal tombs), another at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a third at the Fascist Altar on the Capitoline Hill. Lunch was at the King's Palace, followed by a go-minute conference in Il Duce's office, and then the two Dictators drove to Rome...
German tourists and German residents of Italy, meanwhile, gathered 4,000 strong in the Circus of Maxentius, were then briefly addressed by the Führer, before he closed his day with a State dinner at the King's Palace. Der Führer's keynote...
...days after a stormy Atlantic crossing, German Opera Star Lotte Lehmann trotted out on the stage of London's Covent Garden * to sing the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier. In the middle of the first act and a high note she stopped singing. Shouting in English "I can't go on," she rushed from the stage, fell in a dead faint. From a stage box stepped the Viennese soprano, Hilde Konetzni, due to make her London debut the next night. Dressmakers hastily pinned up Diva Lehmann's costumes to fit Hilde Konetzni's shorter, plumper figure. Whereupon...