Word: realms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers, more thousands of prisoners, hills of wreckage. In five days they had fought through five defense belts, smashing down a great concentration of enemy tanks in what may have been the war's biggest battle of armor. Now they could pierce the heart of the Hitlerites' realm-the scarred, sprawling fourth city of the world, the Nazis' holy ground. Russian shells screamed over and around Hitler's Kanzlei on Wilhelmstrasse and exploded close to Hermann Göringstrasse and into Potsdamer Platz. There, in the Kriegsministerium, the conquest of Russia had once been mapped...
...years the House of Savoy has stood divided by a polite but firm family feud. Last week the faction headed by Crown Prince Umberto, Lieut. General of the Realm, was enjoying a temporary upper hand over the faction represented by his 45-year-old playboy cousin, Prince Aimone di Savoia, Duke of Aosta...
Irene Castle McLaughlin, who tripped her way to fame during World War I with such sprightly dances as the Maxixe and the Castle Walk, was completely out of sympathy with World War II's jitterbugging: "It's not dancing-it belongs to the realm of athletics . . . they look like a netful of fish...
Across the shrinking Nazi realm writhed columns of civilian refugees, hungry, pan icky, desperate. Remnants of the Wehrmacht, cut off, cut up, were dissolving into a hopeless, fugitive mob. Great centers like Frankfurt (see below) and Mannheim had become ghost cities, stark in their architectured wreckage, starker in their human disintegration. The few Germans left behind were unheroic, impenitent, apathetic, sullen, unable or unwilling to believe what had happened. The diehards were mostly adolescent gangs, leftovers of Hitler Youth, who fought street battles between themselves, spied on Allied authorities and sometimes flung grenades into Allied trucks...
Gradually and uneasily, however, they approach and finally achieve a meeting in the realm of normal human temperature. They are helped along by their compound jealousy over a wolf in refugee's clothing (Carl Esmond) and Mr. Tracy's former sweetheart, who appears only insofar as Miss Hepburn malignantly, funnily parodies her mannerisms, which is appearance enough. On the sidelines the widow's boozy cousin (Keenan Wynn) and a man-chaser vaguely identified as a real-estate agent (Lucille Ball) hang around with little to do but be likable, which they seem to find easy...