Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mentioned that West Virginia voted for Coolidge in 1924 instead of its native John William Davis. "The State has received not bread, but a stone." The National Council of the Steuben Society of America recommended Nominee Smith to the Society's units and members (Some 3,500,000 German-Americans). Dr. Arthur Twining Hadley, President-Emeritus of Yale University, wrote a testimonial: ". . . The object of the 18th Amendment was to stop drunkenness and promote public order. This object has not been attained...
...sending messages to the central reading room thirty miles back of the lines, has been cut off. When I sent my last plea for help, I had to wait thirty minutes for an answer. Various bulletins which I recognized as spurious, came through, carrying such messages in a heavy German hand as? 'Out for two weeks', 'reserved for the Rainbow Division', or 'in bindery'. At last came back my own cylinder. With Edson, our flagbearer, who had been wounded in the head, drooling Beowulf in my ear, I read the words...
...quickly scribbled the answer from memory and my college German: Nein, sagte der Bauer, wir haben kein Bett, aber Sie konnen mit Baby schlafen'. An instant later our last cylinder was on its way to the German lines...
...Ralph M. Eaton, assistant, professor of philosophy; David L. Edsell, dean of the medical school; William Y. Elliott, assistant professor of government; Otto K. O. Folin, professor of biological chemistry; J. D. M. Ford, professor of French and Spanish; Roger S. Foster, assistant professor of history of German culture, emeritus, honorary curator of Germanic museum; Felix Frankfurter, professor of administrative law; Lawrence J. Henderson; Nathan Isaacs, professor of business law; Eldon R. James, professor of law; James M. Landis, assistant professor of law; Malcom McNair, assistant professor of marketing; Clavert Magruder, professor of law; Frederick Mark, assistant professor of history...
...last two days the American press has been haling the remarkable achievement o the German dirigible, Graft Zeppelin. Enthusiastic praise of the triumph of Captain Eckener and his associates has been almost universal. The Transcript, however, has managed to find something more than great skill and great courage in the venture of the German airmen: "As a matter of fact, the experience with the ship is more valuable from a military point of view than it is from a commercial. May it not be that this aspect of the matter had a place in the minds of her builders...