Word: hindenburgs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy to dishonor dead emperors; I leave all those, including William II, to the Socialist member, who I feel has no grounds to condemn a Communist for praising a Roman since he donned a frock coat to attend the Hindenburg inauguration...
President von Hindenburg received S. Parker Gilbert, Agent General for Reparations, at the Executive Mansion on the Wilhelmstrasse...
...elected von Hindenburg but we will not do it again. We will vote for the Communists first," shrieked a haughty old lady, prodding a Nationalist in the stomach with her umbrella. Most of the Deputies had escaped into the innermost parts of the building, but some had not been so fortunate. They attempted to remonstrate with the angry crowd, but each time they opened their mouths they were howled down...
...Mendeléeff, five remained to be found until last week, when a German Curie, Dr. Ida Tacke of Berlin, assisted by Drs. Walter Noddack and Otto Berg, proclaimed their discovery of numbers 43 and 75, which they promptly named "masurium," after the East Prussian lakes where General Von Hindenburg defeated the Russians in 1915, and "rhenium," after the River Rhine...
That there is a slight physical similarity between President von Hindenburg and Prince Bismarck seems undisputed. But that there is any intellectual similarity seems equally impossible to entertain. Nevertheless, Berliners are never tired of comparing their President to the Iron Chancellor. Recently, the President's sheep dog, Rolf, took up his residence at the Presidential Palace in the Wilhelmstrasse. Berliners were reminded that Bismarck's great Dane, Tyras, once was a canine resident in the Chancellery on the same street...