Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, President Paul von Hindenburg stood in a public square in Munich with a large gold ring in his hand...
...been for the familiar square head of Old Paul von Hindenburg, an observer would have thought that this was medieval Germany...
Jumpy police officials read the demand of Hindenburg for action, justice. They acted. Soon Silesia breathed easier at the arrest of a notoriously vicious and possibly lunatic youth, who, the pouncing police charged, had murdered Herr und Frau Tschirpe-though no theory as to why he should have done so was announced last week...
When he looked up from the telegram, the President seemed to become Feldmarschall as of old. Curt orders fired rapidly at the equerry replaced the ponderous, civilian manner of Old Paul von Hindenburg. The murdered man had been his personal military servant throughout the War, and long previous. Master and servant were born on the same day-four score years ago. They grew up together in the army of Imperial Germany. As President of the Republic, Great Paul von Hindenburg remembered his poor old friend every year with a gift of money, on their joint birthdays...
...Paul von Hindenburg seemed satisfied, resumed his chamois kill...