Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...yacht that used to belong to Germany's Kaiser stole out of Cherbourg harbor early one morning last week. Sliding up under the flank of an enormous U. S. Liner, she lay there waiting. When she put back towards the shore, several hundred retired members of the "A. E. F. observed that the onetime Kaiser's Yacht, now Cherbourg tender of the United States Liner, has been re-christened Welcome...
Wilhelm II, onetime German Emperor, received in his chateau at Doom, Holland, a correspondent of the Dagens Nyheder, Copenhagen newspaper. The onetime Kaiser, now a grey-bearded old man, has seemingly lost none of his arrogance, none of his pomposity, none of his commanding dogmatism; for, complaining, he said to the Danish newspaperman: "I could show the road to peace, but the world prefers regarding me as a scapegoat to consulting me as an adviser...
Morocco. German trading rights in Morocco, a snag in the negotiations up to the eleventh hour, were definitely settled by France conceding full facilities for trade in all her colonies and protectorates, of which Morocco is the principal. Mindful, undoubtedly, of the attempts of Kaiser Wilhelm to create trouble in Morocco, exploits since dignified as the "incidents of Tangier and Agadir," the French refused to permit German nationals to reside in the protectorate. The assent of the Reich was obtained only after the French had agreed to suppress the 12% supertax on all German products sold to Morocco...
...fiddler. When French engineers ventured to dig the Panama Canal, Mr. Foy was shuffle-dancing and tumbling before miners in the mushroom towns of the Wild West. When Theodore Roosevelt called for Rough Riders, Eddie Foy was in bright lights, a symbol of spry clowning. By the time che Kaiser had started for Paris, "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys" had be come a vaudeville institution. A few years after the Peace Con ference, the whole family retired, the Little Foys because they were emerging from their first childhood, Eddie because he was entering his second. By that time...
Reinhardt v. Kaiser. The year of Reinhardt's arrival in Berlin was a period of intense realism in the Teutonic theatre, when every dunghill and sweat bead in the dialogue found its concrete embodiment on the stage. His Imperial Majesty, Kaiser Wilhelm II, would have it so, having set his imperial face against the art of Painter Lieberman, Poet Hauptmann, Composer Richard Strauss, all of whom found life so harsh as to require art's illusion to make it bearable...