Word: blanker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accused of high treason, condemned to death in absentia. Knowing there was little hope from this Nazi court, Communist Dimitroff blustered and roared his way through the trial while timorous, law-abiding Germans hung open-mouthed on his words. Nothing seemed to annoy bullet-headed Presiding Judge Blanker like the defend ant's persistent snapping of the word selbstvcrstdndlich ("self-evident") to questions whether or not he was a Communist, had been exiled from Bulgaria, believed in the proletarian revolution, had traveled under forged passports...