Word: bismarcks
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...them realized. H. G. Wells once called him "the champion international visitor and retriever of foreign orders and degrees" (he was kudosed by 15 countries, 38 universities). On his first trip to Europe, at 22, Butler was armed with letters to Pope Leo XIII, William Gladstone, Otto von Bismarck, John Henry Cardinal Newman. That was only the beginning. "It has been my happy fortune," he wrote later, "to meet, to talk with and often to know in warm friendship almost every man of light and learning during the past half century...
...Cocos yelled: "Bismarck! Tyrant! Dictator! Boche!" They set out to block passage of the law by every parliamentary tactic they could think of. One hundred and twenty Communists made individual speeches. They proposed 250 amendments, each of which had to be voted down by the non-Communist majority. This wrangling went on all night and far into Sunday-for 36 solid hours...
...American guest was gauche enough to ask the Iron Chancellor's youngest grandson, His Excellency Otto von Bismarck, what he did for a living. "Oh," he said, "I manage my estate" (Friedrichsruh, the family seat near Hamburg...
Only after he left Seattle did his crowds begin to fall off. In Portland, Ore., he drew less than half capacity at the civic auditorium. In Bismarck, N.Dak., only 2,500 busy farmers showed up out of an expected...
...When he started out, Wallace was cautiously insisting that his sole aim was to scare the Democratic Party leftward. By the time he reached Denver, he was threatening: "If we can't make the Democratic Party liberal, we'll have to take what action is appropriate." In Bismarck he hinted with boyish glee that he might take "a Democratic vacation" in 1948, i.e., form a third party...