Word: gambrinus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...them Italian and one German, burst into flame before Venezuelan officials could seize them. Three other Italian ships were boarded and seized. As the tankers blazed offshore, threatening the oil-soaked docks, angry crowds rushed from the harbor to the center of town, set fire to the German-owned Gambrinus Hotel...
...Gambrinus Bierabend." It was necessary for Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany to conciliate the German Nationalists if they were to agree to pay France what they described as "the bribe of Thoiry." Perhaps the cleverest diplomat in Europe, he participated at a farewell "bierabend" tendered him by the German colony at Geneva, before he returned from Thoiry to Berlin. Surrounded by convivial friends - devotees of Gambrinus, the legendary inventor of beer-Gustav Stresemann purposely became "indiscreet." ; He "talked a bit." He exulted at the forthcoming liberation of the Rhineland. He cried that the stain of War guilt had been wiped...
...clean of War guilt, what states are War guilty? French Nationalists saw in the "bierabend speech" of Herr Stresemann an implied casting of War guilt on France. Moreover Premier Poincare himself has been accused of being the chief author of the World War by revisionist historians. Would he stomach "Gambrinus" Stresemann's indiscretions? When M. Poincare announced that he would make one of his famed "Sunday speeches" at Bar-le-Duc, French Nationalist newsgatherers scurried thither, prepared to hear him tear the compromise of Thoiry to tatters...
...subsequent carousal. There is some brief speech-making and bowing and toasting and responding by the Grand Duke, and introducing formality. But little by little the deck is cleared for action, and the men settle down to the serious business of the night. Now by the beard of Gambrinus, shall noble deeds be done. Let the hugest beer keg tremble - even the Great Tun in the castle cellar. For here is an unflinching army of veterans, every man a tested hero, bomb-proof against innumerable schooners. What, have we not here men grown gray in the service...
| 1 |