Word: harden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...internationally famed editor of Die Zukunft (The Future) "meets" most of his contemporaries with intent to flay them. It is the opinion of the pre-War U. S. Ambassador to Germany, James W. Gerard, who prefaces the book, that Harden's "power of delineating a personality is more than photographic," that "the hidden thoughts and secret emotions" of men "are as plain to him as if he pierced their being with a mental...
...Editor Harden "meet," "pierce" and "flay...
While still a mere stripling, Maximilian Harden attained the notoriety which has ever since been his by attacking Wilhelm der Zweite on the grounds of his private immorality and his public folly in "dropping the pilot," Bismarck...
Wilhelm's relations with Harden were highly interesting on three occasions: 1) The day when the Emperor had Harden clapped into a damp fortress at the mouth of the Vistula for lèse majesté. 2) The night on which the Imperial Chancellor secretly conveyed a large sum of money to release Prisoner Harden. 3) The day of Wilhelm's abdication, when he declared: "Now Germany must send Harden to Versailles. He is my greatest enemy, and has been so from the beginning; but Germany has no better peace-maker...
...Harden was not sent. His comment upon those who did not send him is characteristic: "Whom the gods would destroy they first make blind...