Word: gerling
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...year of terrorist Nazi bombings in Austria, Chancellor Dollfuss had reluctantly enforced for the first time his recent drastic decree-law providing death for civilians caught with explosives. The first terrorist caught and hanged was neither an Austrian nor a Nazi but a wild-eyed Czechoslovak Socialist, one Josef Gerl, who bellowed from the gallows as the noose was put about his neck, ''Long live Austrian liberty...
Just 15 hours after Socialist Gerl was hanged, Chancellor Dollfuss summoned a Cabinet council in Vienna's big white Ballhaus, the historic Chancellery of Prince Metternich in which Napoleon's Europe was carved up by the Congress of 1815. Routine matters were dealt with and Minister of Education Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg had slipped off with one or two other Ministers to an early lunch. Suddenly a breathless secretary rushed in with a slip of paper which he handed to the little Chancellor and strapping Major Emil Fey, Commissar for Emergency Measures for Defense of the State. "Action against...
...that his editor had to censor them; but she has left a flowery residue. At first no one girl was enough for the "Don Juan of Our Days." "The most ones of our officers had sweathearts, but I was to yang and to inconstant to bound me with a gerl; prefair to flay from one to a other, as a butterflay who flay from one flower to a other one." Later he had many a protracted affair-with Angelina, with Olga, with his Aunt Emma, with Lili. "the noty gerl" who betrayed him for another...
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