Word: hochs
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...wanted them to remember how gallantly Tanga's land forces had defended their little fort in 1914, how they had defeated the British East African Expeditionary Force with heavy losses and made the wounded British lion creep ignominiously away! Banquet guests woke the echoes with Hoch! after Hoch! bellowed tearful choruses of Deutschland, Deutschland Über Alles...
Same evening British colonists were horrified to hear the blare of a German band from the waterfront, to see German sailors replete in brass buttoned pea-jackets, with fluttering ribbons hanging down their backs, goose-stepping past the Consul while native boys grinned in delight. German settlers shouted Hoch! again. Horror soon changed to fury when they read a full translation of Consul Speiser's speech...
...bounded by Lake Michigan, Canada, the Rockies, Southern Kansas and Missouri), is in general a straight upward revision that will mean $12,000,000 more annual revenue to the Western trunk lines. Rates on certain agricultural commodities, however, were not raised. This is a negative application of the famed Hoch-Smith Resolution, whose positive application? which would mean actual lowering of present rates on farm products?was held unconstitutional in a recent U. S. Supreme Court decision. The Western rate structure has long been in need of revision...
...Munich critical Müncheners cried Hoch! until their throats were hoarse. The press called the Orchestra better even than the best in Germany...
Proud scores, proud hundreds of Bremen burghers trotted down with all their kinfolk to the mammoth docks at Bremerhaven last week to cheer themselves purple in the face. "Hoch der Bremen!" roared stout sires. Dimpling Frauleins echoed, "Hoch der Bremen!" Radio carried the massed cheering to remotest German hamlets. From stern Prussia to mellow Saxony the whole Fatherland throbbed and thrilled as croaking loud speakers announced that any moment now there would sail from Bremerhaven on her maiden voyage the giant S. S. Bremen-a supership built to wrest from Britain the trans-Atlantic speed record held for the past...