Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dismissal (of Bismarck), an historical antimonarchist play by Emil Ludwig, was produced for the first time at Berlin and has caused a good deal of comment in the press; although the people, surprisingly enough, refrained from any outward manifestation of their contempt or approval. The absence of rotten eggs and other uncomplimentary gifts is considered by the antiroyalist press as nothing short of a 1923 miracle; even the monarchist journals are not too enthusiastic for Wilhelm. Herewith some comments...
...Deutsche Tageszeitung, monarchist paper: " He (Bismarck) did not even know how to smoke a pipe...
...Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hugo Stinnes' quasi-reactionary organ: " The performance was good enough for well-meaning people. The Kaiser looked like an infantry captain and Bismarck like an old clergyman. His two sons, Herbert and Bill, might have passed for shabby underlings employed in a lawyer's office, but never as the Counts they were...
...York for Southampton and Cherbourg on July 4. Not only will she make her first trip since receiving the $10,000,000 alterations which have equipped her for passenger service; she will go forth now as the largest vessel ever afloat. Hitherto the Majestic, a British ship (formerly the Bismarck) was the largest vessel, with a registered tonnage of 56,551 and a length of 915.5 feet. The Shipping Board announces, however, that on account of alterations on the Leviathan-chiefly because of changing her from a coal burner to an oil burner-her tonnage...
Joseph Vincent Fuller '14: Bismarck's Diplomacy at its Zenith. Based on the latest German official publications, this study covers the years 1886 and 1887, a crucial period in modern European history...