Word: bavarian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe's democratic forces are behind Byrnes and not Wallace," Friedrich criticized "false alternatives," stating certain forces may be behind neither and pointing to the generally hostile reactions to the Byrnes policy in French political quarters. He added that Niebuhr's information concerning the "planned economy" provision in the Bavarian constitution was decidedly incorrect...
...provision of a planning commission in their new constitution. Our military government ruled it out on the ground that it was incompatible with democracy. Amidst the awful shambles of the German cities such notions of "free enterprise" are as irrelevant as Communism is noxious. It was a very conservative Bavarian who wailed, "How do Americans expect us to rebuild these cities without planning...
...more in keeping with the spirit of the times: Bombe (Bomb) had become Bonne Chance; Offensivgeist (The Spirit of the Offensive) had become Olymp, but Munich's bettors, who poured more than a million marks a day into the tote windows, could still catch a glimpse of the Bavarian aristocracy strolling in the paddock, dressed in the last word in Paris (1941) fashions...
Guests at the many cocktail parties tinkling daily in the lakeside chalets (almost all of them are open this year) miss the familiar sight of Prince Rupprecht. The popular dean of Bavarian society has been something of a recluse since the illness of his wife. But handsome Emmy Göring and her plump, delightful daughter Edda have been much in evidence. Emmy planned to keep her life simple this summer, but she has relented sufficiently to give many an intimate, dazzling dinner party for visiting officers...
Among the first to acknowledge the gay courage shown by the Bavarian society ladies (who have been through so much these last years) are the gallant young U.S. lieutenants, captains and majors. Their uniforms add to Tegernsee parties that touch of martial color for which Bavarian society has ever been distinguished...