Word: kaiserism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heart was weak; his right, monocled eye was nearly sightless. In the War both his legs were lacerated by shrapnel. He contracted a stomach malady which he knew to be incurable. But he fought bravely, wrote plays and poetry. As a vice consul in Holland he received the fleeing Kaiser. The Crown Prince was his crony. Never married, he often said his three wives were "the pen, politics and aviation." He was in the advertising business...
Died. General Hans ("The Long") van Plessen, 88, onetime Commander of Imperial Headquarters and Adjutant of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II; in Potsdam, Germany. The tall figure of General von Piessen appears behind the Kaiser in most group-photographs taken during the Kaiser's reign...
...with a solemn flourish proposed the principal toast: "Your Imperial Majesty's health and happiness." Obsequiously seated some distance from the head of the table was Herr von Berg, shrewd lawyer, who recovered from the German Republic and the State of Prussia over $3,000,000 for onetime Kaiser Wilhelm. Though correspondents were not admitted to any of these functions, most of them curbed their tempers well, took only the smallest revenge by ferreting out the fact that each guest received a handsomely engraved...
...Program for the seventieth birthday of the All-Highest?His Majesty, the Kaiser and King...
...youths" the most exalted is now perhaps Seymour Parker Gilbert, 36, Agent General of Reparations, sometimes called the "new Kaiser of Germany," and a graduate of Rutgers...