Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Punch represents thousands of solid respectable British families. It is read in every quarter of the globe. It was Punch that first mourned the death of Lincoln; that published the famed cartoon, "Dropping the Pilot," when the young German Kaiser forced Bismarck to resign; that opposed the Irish Home Rulers; that grew most exercised over Mayor Thompson's (Chicago) anti-British antics...
Spring snow-lay spread over North Dakota's black prairies like thick, grey sauce. It hugged the buttes and ran melting off the gables of crouton-like barns. Hay and wheat farmers around Bismarck, North Dakota's capital*, slouched to their chores. Horses rubbed restlessly against their stalls. Spring was coming to North Dakota...
...Bismarck and Mandan, nearby on the Missouri River, there was anxiety. The river ice and slush was packing up just below the cities. Water was rising with threat of flood. In lowlands the Missouri, streaming from the Rocky Mountain watersheds across Montana and draining North Dakota's Little Missouri, Knife and Heart rivers, had spread from its 500-ft. channel over a 6-mi. runway. The cities were in danger. Officials telegraphed President Hoover, pleading that Army bombers be sent to break the ice jam by dropping explosives...
Favorite character in history: Napoleon, 29; Lincoln, 14; Roosevelt, 11; Cleopatra, Lee, and Bismarck, 6; Hannibal...
...Prussia was an aggressive individual called Bismarck who drank much champagne, smoked many cigars, and swore loudly that Germany had a future...