Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawn the old German Imperial standard broke out from the flagstaff of House Doorn. As the morning advanced, Burgo master Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Roye arrived with a Dutch choir, proceeded to the Orangerie and staged a birthday serenade to Wilhelm II, 70. Clad in black fur-lined coat and astrakhan cap Wilhelm of Doom listened, seemed to especially enjoy a folk song called "The Bold Spinster." After thanking the choir and the Burgomaster Baron, he alluded to his famed hobby thus...
Prompt to the dot of 10 a. m., the one-time German Court Chaplain, Dr. Heinrich Vogel, preached a sermon extolling the "Christlike qualities of the Emperor." The text had been supplied by Wilhelm II (Roman...
...Alas! His enemies succeeded. But now the fraud is apparent to the whole world. Easter is coming. But only in deepest sadness can we think of our German people, who are externally enslaved and indebted and internally at the same time enslaved and lifeless and?this is the sad dest part?want to be slaves...
Present at table was Friedrich August III, deposed King of Saxony, and he with a solemn flourish proposed the principal toast: "Your Imperial Majesty's health and happiness." Obsequiously seated some distance from the head of the table was Herr von Berg, shrewd lawyer, who recovered from the German Republic and the State of Prussia over $3,000,000 for onetime Kaiser Wilhelm. Though correspondents were not admitted to any of these functions, most of them curbed their tempers well, took only the smallest revenge by ferreting out the fact that each guest received a handsomely engraved...
...completely understood the highly complex method of transferring Reparations "in kind" from Germany to the Allies. Last week Parisian gendarmes clapped M. Pollier into jail. People' said he had used his unusual knowledge to cheat the French Government out of some 80,000,000 francs worth of German sugar paid as Reparations in kind...