Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accepted by the Hoovers as First Dog was, however, uncertain. It promised to be a delicate matter. Of course, so illustrious a pet would be welcomed and appreciated by anyone with any feeling at all for dogs. But the Hoovers had a dog already, a shaggy, grim-grinning German police dog, perfectly respectable as to breeding though no multiple champion. To predict that this staunch friend of Commerce Department days would be relegated at the White House to give place to ever-so-aristocratic Bellhaven Behoover, was something few predicters would venture. The odds seemed the other way, that this...
...show, to be withdrawn for Miss America, who is sometimes better than Buckaroo and sometimes not nearly so good. On this occasion, she was probably not as good as the old horse would have been; she made three faults on one circuit of the ring and the German team won the event with nine faults; Poland and the U. S. tied for second with 9½. In the jump-off for undisputed second place...
...College, with 775 members of the three upper classes enroled. It has shown a gradual though steady gain since 1926. Below the divisions of Economics and English ranks as the third largest field History, with 233 concentrators. The combined field of Modern Languages, containing the Romance Languages, German and English, numbers 634 men, a decided drop from its 1926 total...
...preface to English-speaking readers Author Wassermann explains that he is recounting a notorious incident of German history to illustrate a universal abuse; for in the youthful victim of a political intrigue he sees the symbol of all misunderstood children. By such explicit labeling the author hopes to establish his book as something more than the excellent historical novel which a large and enthusiastic European public thought...
...into the Seine and how her subsequent life advances with recriminations, nightmares, protests, to a suicide in the dead man's room in the firelight is told on the screen with the beautiful realism that was the movement of Zola's mind. Splendidly acted by a Franco-German company hitherto unknown to the U. S., directed by Jacques (Faces of Children) Feyder, this is the first picture in which the resources of continental literature are realized in a photography comparable to Hollywood...