Word: fatherland
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...paper flowers in their hair, it seemed a good omen. It was the first Thursday after Whitsunday, Vienna's traditional day for confirmations. Said he: "I have returned as a private person and I am glad to be able to spend the eventide of my life in the Fatherland." The Government announced that his reception in Vienna was thoroughly unofficial...
...this might seem trivial! Conservatives might wink a wise eye at that "spirit of discipline and fair play inculcated on the sporting fields of Harvard" which has so delightfully been carried overseas to grace the hitherto depraved Fatherland. The average Harvard man might feel fairly titillated by Hanfstaengl's glowing tribute to "American energy, character, and idealism." Indeed, conservative professors, if not profiteering patriots, might revel in the lovable Ernst's bid for "intellectual, scientific, and human interchange between the U.S. and Germany, without which there can be no true insight, no true understanding, no true progress...
...agitators and their collegiate stooges were actually demonstrating against is a subject still shrouded in the dust of City Square, but the idea seems to have been that the denting or the sleek gray sides of the "Karlsruhe" and the possible laying out of a few sons of the Fatherland by well-placed brick-bats would be a peculiarly suitable method of getting Herr Hitler to do something. That supposedly intelligent students of two of the country's leading educational institutions should affiliate themselves with a demonstration that is certain to awake no popular sympathy, seems remarkable to us, when...
...established a remarkable safety record. The innumerable long distance flights of the Graft Zeppelin without a single serious accident, and the fact that the German-built Los Angeles is the only ship that has survived the vagaries of American airship commanders for any length of time, show that the Fatherland is still master of the art of lighter than air navigation...
...Department and the German government with failing to heed the extradition treaty, claiming that since he was not deported within the 60-day limit, he should have been released last year regardless of his guilt or innocence. Despite all this, the Hitler government still demands his extradition to the Fatherland, Normano, or Lewin, demands his freedom, and Uncle Sam is left stauding alone to make a decision, which, no matter on whose side it falls, is bound to stir up ill-feeling against the mediator...