Word: geheimrat
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...rather widely, yet convertly, bruited notion of awarding Mr. Nixon (or possibly his man Friday, the Herr Geheimrat Prof. Dr. Kissinger) the Nobel Peace Prize is preposterous enough that we can suspect it stems from the balmy brain of some unregenerate cynic, if not from some sycophant claquer of the Agnew stripe. Whoever thought it up fails to realize that so high an honor could have its seamy side, too. Mr. Nixon would find himself in a cheerless company along with men of thought, science, literature, above all, integrity, where plastic "sincerities" and windy rhetoric are not properly appreciated...
...from the rest of medical science has been closed for good. Gone is the era of the "great man" in surgery, dominated by the European Geheimrat system. The great man seldom saw the patient before an operation. He arrived early at the hospital, scrubbed up and donned a gown that left a length of striped pants showing below. He operated swiftly, with never an unnecessary stroke of the scalpel or a needless word to his assistants and nurses...
Castor tells me that the appearance of Hoover Geheimrat on a Boston silver screen today was the touchstone for a truly inspiriting burst of applause. It was almost as if the new era had not already become the old one, and brought back many memories of the days before the Geheimrat was a grand symbol of spoof, a kind of national jest in apostolic succession to the mother-in-law. Castor diagnosed this as a popular reaction to personal success after personal failure, a sense of comfortable relief among us that he will not be the traditional ex-president, heavy...
Idea for the contest and money for the prizes came from wealthy, white-mustached Herr Geheimrat Doktor Philipp Rosenthal, president and founder of Rosenthal China Corp. Largest of German potters, his various factories make every thing from fine porcelain dinner services to lighting fixtures, kitchen appliances, high tension insulators. German business men know that he is directly responsible for the revival in 1921 of the Leipsig Fair, great European trade exposition, which seemed doomed in the days of Germany's post-War depression. Potter Rosenthal, who makes most of his money from utilitarian crockery, is proudest of the delicate porcelain...
...Geheimrat von Opel issued vigorous denials. But Berlin newsgatherers heard and published that the price paid by G. M. for Opel would...