Word: germane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maryland Quaker, progenitor of the family in the U. S. and the Nominee's great-great-great-grandfather, came to this country in 1740 or before, not from Holland as some have said but direct from Germany. He signed his name Andreas Huber at first. He spoke "high" German. He is thought to have become a Quaker after his arrival...
Vicomte Alain de Leche, France's young patrician poet, gave way to generalities about women before boarding the Majestic. German women . . . "wear too much glasses, are either Hausfraus or adventuresses." French women . . . "are too calculating." British women . . . "love sports too well, are developed only physically." American women . . . "are intoxicating, but oh! so intoxicated, I am shocked. I am disgusted. I shall never marry an American." But M. le Vicomte could be generous: "I liked Indians, cowboys, Charlie Chaplin...
...headlines topped reports of a furious oration by Pan-German Deputy Deutsch: "Austrians!! Today the Italians have erected at Bolzano, overlooking our frontier, a monument and an inscription which reads: Here Are The Frontiers Of Our Fatherland . . , From Here We Have Driven The Barbarian* Language, Laws and Arts...
...SACRIFICE-Fritz von Unruh-Knopf ($2.50). Son of a German general, Fritz von Unruh was commissioned in 1916 to write something that would improve regimental morale. When he submitted the manuscript of the present volume the General Staff declared him insane. Way of Sacrifice is a mad medley of trench mud, footsore soldiers' nightmares, barbwire hallucinations, macabre fears, and philosophic outbursts, synthesized into despair over the futility of it all. The particular futility of unrelieved "storm regiments" below Verdun was evident to officers and men alike. The callous commandant: "Four hundred thousand gone? I reckoned it at that...
...Metropolitan Opera Company enjoys many unique advantages, none more noticeable than the prestige and humility which greets every pronouncement made by its Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Last week he announced plans for the coming year. There would be several premieres including: Strauss's already famous Die Aegyptische Helena, in German, with presumably Rethberg or Jeritza, both of whom have sung the role in Europe, singing Helen; Fra Gherardo, Ildebrando Pizzetti's new opera which was sung for the first time a month ago in Milan; and Jonny Spielt Auf, by Ernst Krenek, which is called a "jazz" opera...