Word: emdenize
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...world gasped three years ago when blatant Huey Pierce Long, then Governor of Louisiana, hoisted himself out of bed in pajamas and received a full-dress courtesy call from the commander of the German cruiser Emden. In Veracruz, Mexico, never, never would Mayor Epigmenio Guzman be guilty of such a breach of etiquet. Last fortnight the British cruiser Norfolk dropped anchor in Veracruz bearing in her stern cabin none less than the Commander-in-Chief of Britain's America & West Indies Station, Vice-Admiral the Hon. Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax...
...remind his dear friends, his honored guests, of those dear days when Tanga was one of the chief jewels in the Kaiser's crown. He wanted to remind them too that it was from German East Africa that the commerce raider Konigsberg, almost as spectacular as the Emden, started in 1914, and that it was not far from Tanga harbor that she was finally sunk with colors flying...
...designer, commander and world navigator, was twice a godfather. A pass in the Coast Range of mountains east of San Diego, over which he sailed three weeks ago, was named Eckener Pass by Major Carl Spats, Army flyer, and Commander Van Arnauld de la Perier of the German cruiser Emden. In dedication they flew over the pass, dropped a parachute with a, German and a U. S. flag attached. The 'other christening was by Luft Hansa, German air transport company, who named one of its huge new trimotored Rohrback-Romar transoceanic planes the D ok tor Eckener...
...custom of the Emden to travel accompanied by a coal tender and, usually, a "junkman." The "junkman" was a neutral or valueless ship detained by Capt. von Müller to be used as a floating hotel for the crews and passengers of destroyed vessels. When loaded to capacity, the "junkman" was released and sent steaming off to the nearest port. So bloated grew the Emden with provisions from her victims that Captain von Müller gave a band concert every afternoon and served coffee and bonbons to his crew...
...Emden sent a landing party ashore to destroy the wireless station of Port Refuge in the Keeling Islands. Up steamed the Australian cruiser Sydney, half again as large as the Emden. After a running fight which lasted ten hours the Emden was driven ashore, a blazing wreck...