Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General has consistently criticized Feldmarschall von Hindenburg for that "disloyalty to our Kaiser" which he showed by allowing himself to be elected President. For at least three years the two old warriors have not met or spoken. Therefore it was all the more remarkable that Erich von Ludendorff appealed to Paul von Hindenburg to save him from the "pests...
...proceeded to utter things which Count von Westarp, because of his political status, dare not say. Bristling and bellicose, Col. von Struense roared: "A turning point in German history has arrived-this evening marks the beginning of a fight which can end only in the coronation of a German Kaiser...
Count Kuno von Westarp is certainly too shrewd to imagine that the 20,000,000 votes will ever be polled; but he needs an issue around which to rally supporters to his Party, and apparently he has decided that by backing the "Kaiser Referendum" he can win the support of the few thousand super-Monarchist revolutionaries who have heretofore kept up their own party organizations...
...Germany, whose scientists have the world's reputation for thoroughness, the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Breeding Science last week put on an exhibition. Present were blue monkeys, yellow rats, kinky-haired rabbits, 40,000 varieties of dandelions. Selective cross breeding had caused the weird results. Apparently species of animals and plants can be changed at man's will or nature's chance...
...Phantom Lover. Whether, as written by Georg Kaiser, this might have been a flip and stinging comedy or an exciting allegory illustrated with melancholy symbols, no one could determine. It was clumsily translated and five out of six of its players staggered about the stage with moans and agonies, glaring, and thumping the furniture with their heavy hands. A feeble-minded virgin, seeing a young lieutenant looking at the rings in a jeweler's window, became enamored. When she sat next him in church, she regarded this as a marriage ceremony. When he occupied an adjoining chair...