Word: otto
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hall devoted to "Insults to the Honor of German War Heroes" were several etchings by Draughtsman Otto Dix, who ranks with Grosz for his skilled and brutal memories of trench fighting (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). Another section oddly entitled "The Mocking of Christianity" displayed Emil Nolde's Christ and the Thieves which the National Gallery in Berlin bought for $10,000 in 1930. There were also "A Peasant Scene from a Jewish Point of View," "The Manifestation of the Soul of the Jewish Race" and a group called "The Derision of the German Women." But the greater part...
...meticulous conductor with a clean, unmannered beat, they find him immature, often maladroit in sustaining long passages, often given to inexplicable changes of pace. But Hollywood had little doubt of Janssen's worth. At the end of the concert they stood and applauded for seven minutes. Conductor Otto Klemperer said he was "overwhelmed." Forty-two hostesses invited him to their parties as guest of honor...
...Hale. The evidence consists principally of a blood spot on Hale's coat, which might have come from a barber's cut. More threatening is a hot surge of Southern hatred. When Hale's wife (Gloria Dickson) gets a Northern detective and a crack Northern lawyer (Otto Kruger) to aid her husband, his doom is practically sealed...
...that the Davis Cup final would really be the interzone matches between the U. S. and Germany. Soon as the draw was announced last week, experts alsc knew that the U. S. and Germany would split the first two matches-U. S. No. i Donald Budge trouncing Henner Ernst Otto Henkel, and German No. i Baron Gottfried von Cramm trouncing Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant. The opening matches turned out just so and the one doubles match became pivotal. Paired as always with husky Gene Mako, Budge did not hit his stride until von Cramm & Henkel...
Joseph Stalin last week was in such genial spirits that, when publicly welcoming the Soviet North Pole Expedition home to Moscow, he kissed its chief, heavily bearded Professor Otto Schmidt, full on the mouth. Also back in Moscow last week from their Coronation trip to England were U. S. Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph E. Davies, he bent on making an immediate tour of the Ukraine. As if most of the Soviet Union were not weltering in a lather of treason trials, executions and suicides of Big Reds, and purges from the Communist Party which its news-organs reported under screamers...