Word: ist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prince (to Mrs. Jarrett's escort): Die junge Frau ist zu komisch...
Breathless, red-faced and disheveled, a young Austrian Nazi ducked into a cafe on Vienna's Wiedner Hauptstrasse one morning last week, slipped up to a table and gasped: "Der Linzer Putsch ist futsch!" (a fizzle at Linz). Within a few hours all Europe knew the details of the latest half-cocked attempt of an Austrian Nazi band to seize power, and disgusted German Nazis were again calling their southern brethren stupid sheepsheads...
...Certainly the procedure should be maintained in cases of treason!" urged the ist Baron Rankeillour, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons in 1924-29. But such objections and proposals last week went unheeded. By a vote of 45-to-24 the few peers in the House upheld Lord Sankey, and the Government was thus enabled to prepare a bill under which an arrested peer will face ordinary trial in Britain's ordinary courts...
...baldish, hard-driving man of 44, Colonel Gorrell was graduated from West Point and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, went to chase Pancho Villa in Mexico as adjutant of the ist Aero Squadron. In the War he fought on all five fronts, became Chief of Staff of the A. E. F. air service, one of the youngest men in U. S. Army history to win a colonelcy. Awarded many a medal, he served at the Peace Conference, quit the Army in 1920 to work for Nordyke & Marmon Co. Joining Stutz Motor Car Co. in 1925, he became president in 1929, resigned...
...aware that Der Führer has ever withdrawn from the Catholic Church." Declared Herr Hitler's own Realmchancellery: "Adolf Hitler was born a Catholic, baptized a Catholic and is still a Catholic, although not a practising Catholic in the ordinary churchgoing sense." The latest German Wer Ist's (Who's Who) plainly lists Der Führer as "Catholic...