Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Just 31 years ago, while Rough Riders drilled in Texas, German bands played "Dolly Gray" and U. S. Volunteers sweated in blue flannel shirts and tubular blanket rolls, the name of the Dutch island of Curaçao appeared in bold headlines. One hot morning, the U. S. Consul at Curaçao, gazing casually from his bedroom window found the normally peaceful harbor black with steel-snouted, round-turreted warships...
...coward. He was drunk when the bugle blew, and when she told him to get out and join the ranks he belched in her pretty face. So she put on his tin hat and got in his place and won a battle for the regiment by shooting a German machine gunner. Actress Eleanor Boardman and Director Henry King do the best they can with their material. Best shot: tanks going into action...
While Mr. Ford was shipping duty-free Fordsons, General American Tank Car Corp. was employing another standard way of scaling tariff walls. This barrier, however, was not U. S. but German. Reluctant to pay the high duties collected in Germany on U. S. goods, the Tank Car company, á la General Motors, took over a German car company and organized it as a subsidiary...
...style ? a short left hook which many called vicious; the dempseyesque "weaving" which looks so well in the ring and keeps the other man guessing. Chiefly it is in the Schmeling right that the Schmeling might resides. It is swift, potent, and from it came all the early German knock outs which gave Schmeling fame and ideas. Black, red and yellow German flags fluttered all over the Lakewood camp because Herr Schmeling never forgets that he is a German. He likes it to be known that whenever he returns to his Fatherland, as he did after knocking out Johnny...
...time Schmeling was an art student. He was also a miner, a structural iron worker, a copyboy in the advertising department of a German newspaper. He wanted to be a sailor but his mother said nein. Since he has learned English he revels in Conrad, Jack London, Western stories. He solemnly avers that in German he reads Gerhart Hauptmann and, of course, Goethe, Schiller...