Word: germane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long ago the bitter-brilliant publicist Maximilian Harden went to a State Reception held at the Foreign Office of the German Republic. He skulked about. There were mountains of caviar sandwiches, sideboards snowy with ices, trays of brimming champagne goblets; and all the women had shaved and powdered under their armpits. These things put Publicist Harden into a towering, democratic rage...
Today lean, brittle Maximilian Harden is the tenant of a grave (TIME, Nov. 7). Doubtless his ghost was in a towering rage, last week; because the fat, poodle-nosed man whom he had called "King Gustav" was quietly celebrating his fifth anniversary as German Foreign Minister. The Poodle-Man is Dr. Gustav Stresemann.* He celebrated at Oberhof, a Thuringian spa, where he has been convalescing from an almost fatal kidney attack (TIME, May 28). Telegrams, cables and flowers poured in, for Dr. Stresemann is the outstanding and most potent German statesman. He has held the Foreign Ministry while nine Cabinets...
Shrewdness and flair and certainly Kate, enabled the young Deputy to climb to the top of his party, National Liberal, now grown into the German Peoples' Party. She may have bought him the portrait of Napoleon or the one of Byron. Anyhow he still keeps both...
Merely because Frau Stresemann is almost the only wife of a German Cabinet Minister who is not plump or a frump, they disapprove. But no one ever seems to really mind, least of all the smart Poodle...
...German Republic has no war office but instead a "Ministry of Defense." Therefore French pacifists find it intolerable that France still has a "Ministry of War." Last week the situation was finally deemed so grave that War Minister Paul Painlevé sped out to Bourg and there proposed amid pacifist plaudits that his war office shall be re-named the "Ministry of Peace...