Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boast that John Bull was the first paper to call Germans "Huns." He gave David Lloyd George his two campaign slogans "HANG THE KAISER!" and "MAKE THE HUN PAY!" No paper was more obliging with atrocity stories; none, when the War was over, quicker to fatten on anti-U. S. prejudice. MORE SWANK FROM THE YANKS was one of his favorite headlines. He was passionately addicted to just one brand of champagne, Pommery Nature, 1906, and bought up almost the entire vintage. Before each of his roaring speeches, for which he was paid enormous fees, Horatio Bottomley would gulp half...
...German-Jewish winners of Nobel Prizes were without jobs last week. Both are full of years and distinction. Dr. James Franck, 51, was a professor at Gottingen University. He won his Prize in 1925, for experimental physics. Professor Fritz Haber, 64, was director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical & Electrical Chemistry in Berlin. He invented the important synthesis of atmospheric nitrogen and hydrogen into ammonia which supplied Germany with explosives and fertilizers during the War. Like Nobel Laureate Albert Einstein, Laureates Haber and Franck resigned their German jobs to avoid Adolf Hitler's white pogrom...
Snark." Forty-four years old was Handsome Adolf Hitler last week and Germany went wild. Not even the Kaiser or Old Paul von Hindenburg ever had such a birthday. Despite his expressed desire to spend the day quietly in his little Alpine cottage near Berchtesgaden he could not avoid the attentions of his delirious followers. They roused him with flowers, they roused him with telegrams, bottles of wine, boxes of cigars (Chancellor Hitler does not smoke, drinks nothing stronger than beer), Easter eggs, Westphalian hams, lumps of sugar for his police dogs. Back in the Chancellery in Berlin the presents...
Even under Kaiser Wilhelm's regime, grudge duelling, as distinct from the formalized slashing bouts of the corps students, was against the law and seriously punished...
None less than the former Kaiser suddenly appeared among the forces of moderation last week. From Doorn came an official message: "Loyal followers of the House of Hohenzollern will refrain from Jew-baiting...