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  • Their father belonged to the "Turnverein" that was located in the Tivoli brewery complex now part of CU Denver.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Desertrat 2010

  • Their father belonged to the "Turnverein" that was located in the Tivoli brewery complex now part of CU Denver.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Desertrat 2010

  • It was my aunt's 65th birthday and the American Turnverein of Brooklyn was to have a testimonial dinner for her.

    'Letters to Jackie' captures a nation's anguish 2010

  • He was bold, disrespectful, possessed of the revolutionary spirit (he organized the Worms Turnverein), was never subservient to the boss yet always trying to wheedle food out of him, always getting right to the heart of the matter.

    Introduction Elwyn Brooks 1950

  • Germany, to some extent, has supplied its place with the _Turnverein_.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 Various

  • The numerous notes sent by America to Germany also formed a frequent subject of caricature and I remember particularly one quite clever one in the paper called Brummer, representing the celebrations in a German port on the arrival of the one hundredth note from America when the Mayor of the town and the military, flower girls and singing societies and Turnverein were drawn up in welcoming array.

    My Four Years in Germany Gerard, James W 1917

  • When he went to the Turnverein, it was to hear the old tongue, to sing the old songs.

    Dangerous Days Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • When Fred sang the Prize Song at an interstate meet of the Turnverein, ten thousand Turners went forth pledged to Ottenburg beer.

    The song of the lark 1915

  • As I look back now, he's been using Papa and all the rest of the silly Turnverein, any way he wants to.

    The Forbidden Trail Honor�� Morrow 1910

  • In the German quarter, to the north, one felt a sort of ornamental bleakness -- if the expression may be permitted: the tenements here were clean and not too crowded, the scroll-work on their superimposed porches, like that decorating the Turnverein and the stem

    The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909

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