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Meanwhile other newspapers gave their cartoonists April foolish license. Bald, smooth-shaven Foreign Minister Stresemann was depicted - for example - as a woolly Bolshevik. Only one great man was held sacrosant, Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg. He was not caricatured because to Germans he is Germany...
...fully displayed here, have produced books that were far more readable than this one. The action and atmosphere of Decadence are typified in a single meteorological description from it: "During the daytime an opal cloud of acrid smoke rose in a column above the earth and at night the bald moon looked unpleasantly red, and the stars, shorn of their rays by the mist, loomed out like the heads of copper nails, while the water in the river reflected the troubled sky and gave one the impression of a stream of thick, subterranean smoke...
...accustomed to spying an error a day in the press. He was accustomed to let them pass in silence. But these errors by famed Mr. Sullivan were too flagrant to endure. To the New York Times he wrote hotly: "We note an astonishing error in the mere statement of bald facts. President Wilson's term did not end until March...
...rose, called up a resolution petitioning Congress to cut off Federal road aid. Yards away, one Ben Hegler protested, picked up the nearest object at hand, let fly with the eye and arm of a veteran baseballer. His colleague, Senator Bennett, ducked, startled; in the very centre of his bald head splashed vehemently a wet sponge...
George Ehret had kindly little eyes and a wedge-shaped bald head, spreading out at the neck. His stiff collars, always too big for him, were immense, low and broad; he tucked the ends of his black bow tie up under the flaps of his collar. His figure was square, his legs a little bowed...