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...maneuvers in the Carolinas. His bellows to his men on maneuvers were always succinct. Once he asked a private what he was shooting at. "A concealed machine gun," the private said. "Goddammit," exploded Patton, "That's not a machine gun. It's a dirty Nazi bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Tankers | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Born in Munich, Viereck arrived in the U.S. at the age of eleven, went to college, became a naturalized citizen, leaped into letters. His first small fame bloomed with publication of a book of poetry, grew a little brighter because of a story that his father was the bastard son of William I of Prussia, which would make him Kaiser Wilhelm's cousin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Citizen Viereck | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...bastard . . . unfair . . . slave-driver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: September Records | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...paced the deck of the imperial yacht that summer evening in 1908, the Kaiser must have recalled Clovis the Frank, who carved a kingdom out of Gaul and South Germany in the 5th Century; and of Pepin the Young and his bastard son Charles Martel, statesmen rather than warlords, who founded the Carolingian Dynasty, the greatest ever to rule Germany. And of Charles the Great Carolingian, whose Empire stretched from the Elbe to the Ebro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Man Who Failed | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Buzzard (too similar in sound to bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Don'ts | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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