Word: frisian
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...medieval Japanese armor stands at the south window of the Great Hall, and has occasionally been donned by the President during police raids. The window itself contains pieces of 14th century stained glass from the Church of St. Augustine at Canterbury, England. Across the room in a serious Frisian grandfather clock of the 17th century, and the Elizabethan mantlepiece next to it has not been dusted since 1583. The fireback is decorated with "Susannah and the Elders" in wrought iron, while tapestries and a Gothic cabinet effectively hide the crumbling north wall...
...with Grossdeutscher Rundfunk so that propaganda of the New Order can flow smoothly out of Berlin. Each week the Nazis spray Germany, Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Belgium and Bulgaria with 187 network newscasts, 363 pep talks in German. To the rest of the world, in 31 other languages (including Arabic, Frisian, Gaelic and Esperanto) they air a weekly total of 1,266 news bulletins, 303 Goebbelsian reports...
...RIDDLE OF THE SANDS-Erskine Childers-Dodd, Mead ($2). From Brunsbüttel to Borkum two Englishmen poked a seven-tonner between the shifting Frisian sands and into Imperial Germany's British-invasion preparations. No ordinary spy story, this is a reprint of a soundly calked yarn of pre-World War I days. To the small-boat sailor its puzzle of channels and fog is better than any cadaver by the mizzen...
Biggest is the Wacht im Westen, which resembles the Frankfurter Zeitung; smallest the Armee-Kurznachrichten, a single half-size sheet of Army notices. The Air Force has its own paper, Der Adler von Friesland (The Frisian Eagle...
...London after the Coronation, an airplane was to take off late this week and, soaring eastward over the North Sea off the low coast of Europe, skirt that continent up to the jigsaw peninsula and archipelago which separate the North Sea from the Baltic. Over Germany's sandy Frisian Islands it would pass, over the fat fields of Schleswig-Holstein, over the belts (straits) of Denmark to tidebitten Zealand Island on whose eastern promontory, only three miles from Sweden across the Sound, lies clean, quiet Copenhagen. From the plane landing at Kastrup, Denmark's top-ranking airport, would...