Word: deutschlandlied
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...evening turned up the silver sliver of a new moon in the sky the German baker, Ernst Vierkoetter, kneaded his way, machinelike, down the last mile. He stumbled up the breakwater steps happy. He had won $30,000. The crowd sang "Deutschland Uber Alles." Four hours later another foreign baker, George Michel of France, propelled his thick bulk along the same last mile. A hand flashlight played on the tricolor of France, fluttering from his pilot boat. As he hit the stone steps he went limp, his head down as though praying or crying. Then he grinned and was hauled...
Nineteen German businessmen descended the gangplank of the S. S. Deutschland in Manhattan, at their head Friedrich Ebert Jr., successful journalist, son of the late famed first President of Germany. Serious, purposeful, the delegation set out to tour U. S. industrial centres. Of President Ebert's three sons, Ebert Jr. alone survives. His brothers were killed during...
...paper patriots as reported in the metropolitan press was highly amusing. The manner in which they rushed to the support of the proposal and at the same time tried with much twisting and turning to have the cruisers augurs ill for this little attempt to ape the "Deutschland uber Alles" methods when it comes before the House again in the near future...
...Petersen of Hamburg ducked and dabbed at his coat amid a shower of fizzing champagne droplets. "I christen thee New York!" cried Mrs. James J. Walker, wife of New York's mayor, and laughed because she had flung the champagne bottle with too much violence. Simultaneously two bands blared Deutschland Ueber Alles and The Star-Spangled Banner...
That night all Deutschland-toasted the name of Ernst Vierkoetter, baker, he who had swum the English Channel in 12 hr. 42 min., thereby lowering Gertrude Ederle's record by 2 hr., beating the best male time by 4 hr. Only six days before, Herr Vierkoetter had battled waves and a blinding fog for ten hours, failed to reach the Dover cliffs. Even then people wondered of what stuff this man was made...