Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whatever his real reason, the suave monarch did have fun. He slept in the Prince Albrecht Palace (occupied last year by plump King Amanullah of Afghanistan). He reviewed troops with grizzled President von Hindenburg. He was publicly and elaborately dined, lunched, toasted, hocked. He gravely inspected Tempelhof airport and the once-royal Staatliche Porzellan Manufaktur. On Unter den Linden, he visited a beauty parlor and, smiling at the dimpled manicurists, said: "Aha! Here is my chance to have my fingers attended...
...several weeks past President Paul von Hindenburg has been a martyr to rheumatic swelling in his knees. Doctors and masseurs bandaged and rubbed, but without success. Willy Sachs, famed Berlin mesmerist, was summoned at a cost of $25 per visit. After Willy Sachs had glared 15 times ($375) at the presidential joints without bringing relief, President von Hindenburg lost hope...
Came last week an elderly Berlin shoemaker commissioned to construct a new pair of presidential shoes. Gazing professionally at the gnarled von Hindenburg feet, the old tradesman decided to equip the new von Hindenburg shoes with solid arch-supporters. President von Hindenburg tried on the new shoes, walked across the room, walked around the garden. His knee pains ceased at once. In a few days his swellings had disappeared. Later an official communique was issued that President von Hindenburg's convalescence was at an end. How the merciful cobbler was rewarded, officialdom neglected...
Thus reads one verse of a famed German gloat-hymn, but the fame of the Emden will not live in gloat-verse alone. So decreed President Paul von Hindenburg of Germany, last week...
...year ago in March, a stalwart Emden machinist, Hans Junk, went to President von Hindenburg and asked permission to adopt the glorious name of Junk-Emden for himself and to bestow it upon his progeny. Recently came Chief Machinist Friedrich Garbe, asking that he might become Friedrich Garbe-Emden. President von Hindenburg ruminated long, but last week the enabling decree was signed. Not only machinists Garbe-Emden and Junk-Emden, but any other survivors of the crew of the gallant cruiser who so desire may now legally hyphen-Emdenize their names "as a title of honor...