Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nothing when every day the Government is suggesting ways for everyone to help? Shooting at the Prussians is not the only way of winning the war. Supposing after proper training the whole United States Army should be taken to Europe and should hurl down the German Army and Capture Berlin; would we then return home without a word, satisfied with merely a military victory? Of course...
There is no doubt that Berlin has counted repeatedly and with due weight those two billions. It has been vaguely computed that war has cost Germany fourteen billions. She has learned the value of capital. She will learn the value of our capital, well invested in the implements of war. She will learn no less that two billions are but the pledge of a hundred times that amount, which we would pay, if necessary, for victory...
...bayonet charge, they might work the same terror on the modern Cimmerians as did Artaxerxes' now well-known elephants, even without the flapping ears and the heaving trunks. They might, given a good boost, bear their elephant-gray ponchos in a clattering charge all the way to Berlin, and end at one elephantine victory...
...castle. The flintlock has been superceded by breech loading machine guns which fire four hundred shots at a clip. To defend his home a man may have to defend a trench some four thousand miles away, over seas and foreign soil. From our expert and trusted correspondents in Berlin we learn also that the German general staff has not included in its plan of war a campaign against Fitchburg, or an invasion into becastled Quincy. The home guards might well, so far as the Germans are concerned, enbalm their pre-Spanish war Springfields in a good quality...
Only it would be too bad if one of those nice Untersee Booten should grow rapacious for the Dutch steamer on which the Count sails, and the sinking of another liner be celebrated in Berlin. That fear beset us with respect to Count von Bernstorff. It is repeated with intensity for Count von Tarnow...