Word: aryanism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...favorite had risen to ranking Nazi film authority) to 38-year-old Pola Negri (born Appollonia Chalupec), whose round poll and lank black hair once marked her as the No. 1 vamp of the screen. Bogeyman Paul Joseph Goebbels was reported frightening Fraulein Riefenstahl by denouncing her for non-Aryan ancestry (TIME, June 21). The Fuhrer, having searched Pola's title to Aryanism, took special pains to affirm it. He had already pronounced: "It is I who decide...
...Aryan who has the slightest Germanic strain is a "German" to Adolf Hitler, who has laid down in Mein Kampf the mystic affinity of all "German blood." Last week "Germans" in the Free State of Danzig finally forced the dissolution of the last remaining political party opposed to the Danzig Nazis, the Catholic Centrists, whose leaders were thrown into jail by Nazi stalwarts, charged with "treason." This made Danzig a 100% Nazi State, nearly justified the New York Times's, excited headline: "DANZIG NAZIS LINK FREE CITY TO REICH...
...German capital most likely to be seen by II Duce wrapped up like Christmas packages, but Unter den Linden, the main thoroughfare, sprouted on each side colossal white pylons four rows deep and as high as the buildings behind them, each pylon topped with a glaring gold eagle. Aryan-owned buildings had the "honor" of sprouting both German and Italian flags, Jewish premises could only fly the tricolor of Italy. To greet the Dictators when they arrived at 5:30 p. m., Berlin's whole teeming proletariat had turned out for a holiday "with pay," proceeded to obey exhortations...
...field kitchens dotted among the tents, food gushed like gravel from a stone-crusher. Into the maws of cooking pots went some 1,500 cows, 7,000 pigs, 1,320,000 pounds of potatoes, 176,000 pounds of vegetables to come out stews and soups for the blond, Aryan party members...
...also capable of studying him, whereupon he set out to collect all the native representations of white men he could find. By 1933 he was ready to put his notes together. In that year, however, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and preoccupation with other cultures than the "Aryan" became dangerous. Forced to resign, Professor Lips was finally driven to Paris, whence Columbia University invited him to finish his work in New York...