Word: dreesen
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...Liza Minnelli, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Eydie Gorme, Mia Farrow, Milton Berle, Connie Stevens, Wayne Newton, Lew Wasserman, Tom Selleck, Paul Anka, Joey Heatherton, Tim Conway, Bob Newhart, Ben Vereen, Ed McMahon, Anthony Quinn, Red Buttons, Marlo Thomas and Angie Dickinson. Pallbearers included Steve Lawrence, Don Rickles and Tom Dreesen, the comic who opened for Sinatra for many years...
...Godesberg Shirer had a glimpse of Adolf Hitler. "I was having breakfast in the garden of the Dreesen Hotel. . . when the great man suddenly appeared. ... X. one of Germany's leading editors, who secretly despises the regime, nudged me: 'Look at his walk!' On inspection it was a very curious walk indeed. In the first place, it was very ladylike. Dainty little steps. In the second place, every few steps he cocked his shoulder nervously, his left leg snapping up as he did so. ... And now I understand the meaning of an expression the party hacks were...
...Chamberlain. To many Germans who suddenly realized last autumn that war was very close, Mr. Chamberlain appeared as a hero who flew to Germany (three times) bringing much-desired peace. Two popular German picture post cards after the crisis showed Mr. Chamberlain and Herr Hitler together, one before the Dreesen Hotel in Godesberg, the other with the ruins of Godesburg Castle in the background...
...limit to the concessions, threatening, via his controlled German press, to hurl his army against Czechoslovakia "within 48 hours," unless Prague immediately went beyond the concessions already made. At this the Prime Minister promptly balked. With the River Rhine running between the Petersberg, hotel of the Britons, and the Dreesen, a favorite hostel at which the German Dictator was stopping for the 68th time, Neville Chamberlain began exchanging stiff, formal diplomatic notes with the Führer-the kind of thing that gets published after war begins in a British Blue Book, a German White Book. Each note was carried...