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Word was passed: "There goes the Crown Prince." Presently a small crowd collected and walked at a respectful distance behind the future Emperor of Germany, if Germany is ever an Empire. A few of the more venturesome essayed a Hoch! which, being freely translated, means "Hurrah...
...there is the scientific symposium. "Symposium" is obviously a misnomer. No one drinks at the Union or enters unconventionally into the discussions with a clink of glasses and a Germanic "Hoch!" Such men as Raleigh and the Virginia planters have put an end to that-- not to mention men more notorious. The clear air of discussion is now clouded with thin blue smoke, so that such gatherings as that to be held tonight should be more aptly termed "smokosiums", and may the best man smoke the others...
...since the high name of comedy has been debased by its application to "comic strips." Comic strips, the horseplay of journalism, the daily joy of my honest burghers, have suffered long the stings of contempt. Seldom have they been excoriated so devastatingly or on such grounds as by Alejandro Hoch, an editor from the Argentine, who is visiting these parts. These are his winged words describing this danger to civilization...
...football game between German and French civilians. Both teams evinced great sportsmanship and there was no unusually rough play. The French won the match 5?0, their team being faster and cleverer than the Germans, who were heavy and powerful. After the match the two teams exchanged hearty "hoch's" and "vive...
After his speech the President led the cheer, " Hoch Deutschland! " and joined in singing " Deutschland tiber Alles...