Word: hindenburg
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...What did Hindenburg's nursery maid yell at him when he cried...
...will to enter the League alone," as epitomized in the inflexible person of her President, must triumph. As youthful Germans crowded about their parents to know the meaning of all these developments, there was told to them again the plenipotent legend of Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und Hindenburg...
...Eine Selbstverstandlichkeit." To begin, the von Beneckendorffs have been for some 600 years among the most respected of the lesser Prussian nobility. By chance, the President's great-grandfather received from his great-uncle (a von Hindenburg) certain landed estates, willed him only on condition that he add the comparatively "nouveau" title of "von Hindenburg" to his own illustrious one. His son, a Prussian officer as a matter of course, married the daughter of an army surgeon. To them was born Paul, a deep-chested healthy infant, who inhaled the atmosphere of Prussian militarism with his first breath...
...Paul von Hindenburg" he was called before the War, when he was on the army pension list. "Hoch! Hoch!! Hoch der President!!!" roared the crowds last week. Dutifully, imperturbably, impressively the old soldier rode to the site of the Leipsic Spring Fair...
...Hindenburg Boot. At the fair the first sight to greet him was the "Hindenburg Boot"?17 feet high, with a sole six feet long, equipped with a barbed spur-wheel two and a half feet in diameter. Six Doebeln shoemakers had taken seven months to construct it from the hides of ten oxen. Touched, the Herr President expressed his appreciation of the compliment thus paid him. It was constructed with still another purpose in view however?to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the founding of the Doebeln Cobblers' Guild...