Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 2, 1918, Belleau Wood was a pernicious fester on the Allied front line. Snugly nestled in every available cranny were deadly German machine gun nests. On that day into Belleau Wood went the U. S. Marines of the 2nd Division Regular Army, with bared bayonets. They yelled in defiance, yelled in death. When, after ten days, the 26th Division relieved them, 4,500 U. S. Marines were killed, gassed or wounded. But there were no more Germans in the Wood. The 26th Division, advancing, bombarded the town of Belleau, demolished the ancient chapel, drove out the Germans...
...Myrtle Huddleston (240 lbs.), who last year remained afloat for 54 hours in a Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name everyone forgot. All then, male and female, proposed to swim to Dover-and back, said Fattest Myrtle; but the press of France, of England, of the U. S.. of the world, would give neither a fig nor a fish for their story...
...Zeppelin, Again. The gorilla and the chimpanzee were glum, the 600 canaries fidgety, the 19 passengers restless, the imprisoned stowaway morose?aboard the Graf Zeppelin as she rushed across the Atlantic last week on the second transoceanic commercial air voyage. She reached Lakehurst, N. J., from Friedrichshafen, at the German-Swiss border in 95 hrs., 23 mins. without trouble, having averaged 60 miles an hour during most of the trip,?about twice as fast as the S. S. Bremen. Passengers, after an agreeably brief customs and immigration inspection, gloated over the relative uniqueness of their air travel...
...Fight for Matterhorn (German). Knowing that audiences all over the world have been bored by faked scenes illustrating the perils of Alpine mountaineering, the producers of The Fight for Matterhorn did not dare to let their fly-like heroes start up the icy ledges until they had roped them together with a story. The anecdote they devised is a silly one about two men who were racing to see which of them could get up Matterhorn first, and how one suspected the other of wanting his wife. Hollywood scenarists could have got out something much better, but no Hollywood company...
...began as a literary hoax. The Berliner Tageblatt in 1924 received and printed a series of satiric poems signed by one J. L. Wetcheek, "famed" U. S. poet, translated into German by Lion (Power) Feuchtwanger. Soon, however, someone discovered that Wetcheek was unknown to U. S. Kultur, that wet-cheek, moreover, was a literal translation of Feuchtwanger. Hoaxes will out. Said Author Feucht wanger, dehoaxed: "If these poems, to some extent, are an attempt to put Babbitt into lyrics, I certainly do not claim to be representative of America, a country I do not know. I wanted...