Word: oderous
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...waterways, linking its many rivers, providing cheap transportation in peace time and invaluable aid in war, when railroads are occupied with troop and munition movements. Last week the Baltic Sea was joined to this system. A 1,200-ton lighter could have come in off the Baltic, down the Oder past Stettin, by canal through the centre of Berlin to Magdeburg on the Elbe, to Brunswick, to Hanover to Minden on the Weser, to Munster on the Ems, and down into Dortmund in the heart of the rich mining and industrial valley of the Ruhr, a tributary of the Rhine...
...treated almost every imaginable subject. A few selected at random include, "Her No Meant Yes," "Do Your Christmas Shopping Early," and "Silent Night," "That Faint Oder," and "Summer Evening." All these subjects he treats in a journalese of prose style...
...know German well will have trouble understanding him, so badly timed is the recording. At the Manhattan premiere of this picture the lounge of the Fifth Avenue Playhouse was fixed up like a German beer-garden and the patrons were served with near-beer and pretzels. Good shots: "Sein oder nicht sein" ("To be or not to be") and "Ach, armer Yorick" soliloquies...
...easy to list the Germans as militaristic, servile to rank and title, and later bloodthirsty committers of atrocities. But the last decade has found, in spite of the gloomy presages at Versailles, a peaceful, democratic, and very harmless people in the land between the Rhine and the Oder...
...diseases have been increasing tremendously in all civilized countries, that in Germany, especially, post-War maladjustments have permanently deranged the minds of thousands. An astute gentleman alert to the wide interest in the subject, he wrote a play, The Mother, which was produced last week at Frankfurt-an-der-Oder...