Word: weimar
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...Goethe in Weimar." Professor Howard, Widener...
Last week the High Court at Weimar found Herr Graefe guilty of malicious slander, sentenced him to three months in jail. Indignant friends of Dr. Stresemann explained once again that his wife has a rich bachelor brother who delights to open his purse and let Frau Stresemann entertain herself, her friends, Dr. Stresemann's friends, at lavish semi-official functions quite beyond the Stresemann means...
...Weimar...
...Since acceptance of this condition was a complete about face for the Nationalists, they were allowed to weasel their acceptance for electioneering purposes by declaring that although they accept the German Republic de facto they do not admit the validity de jure of the Weimar Constitution on which it rests...
...even then known, and is still admired and feared, as peer of the greatest orchestral conductors. "He knew every instrument, and imperiously got what he wanted," said one critic. A veritable prima donna for temper, he once threatened to hurl his baton in the faces of the Weimar choir, unless their singing immediately improved. It was not surprising, then, that his second field turned out to be orchestral composition, particularly the tone poem, that free vehicle for originality. His melodious yet powerful Don Juan, an early work, remains his most popular tone poem; others, as Thus Spake Zarathustra, probed deep...