Word: kaisers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tyrants is over: Constantine is off again, Franz Joseph is dead, Lloyd George has resigned and the Kaiser is married. Only one of the old crew of autocrats is still in full control of his subjects, and that is M. Paul Poiret, ruler of the world's better half. A whim of this foreign autocrat's and the appearance of civilization is changed without a murmur...
...been used by grammarians, ministers, and editorial writers ever since those nuisances came into existence, several thousand years ago. It furnished the slogan of the war-garden in the amended form of "Lettuce Beet the Kaiser", and it has served the purpose of statesmen and politicians. It is on the subject of politics--class politics--that the familiar construction comes in again. This time it is: "Let us vote...
...laughed at; excellent! He will beg some one else to take his place and will enjoy a much-needed rest. Only, of course, he will then look on; - "and the tangle gets a little more, and the fumbling gets a little more pronounced." The man who would "hang the Kaiser in 1918" will see in 1922 "how we are to forgive Germany all the reparations and make France love us more than ever"; how we are to pay debts and not receive them, how all the problems of the country are to be settled...
...Nietzsche. A second reader opines that the first reader may not know so much about "Nietche" as he thinks he does. And all this on the margins of a book on "Moral Economy"! In a history book, a former reader has cleverly transposed the letters of the name "Kaiser Max", and shifted the order, so that the passage reads: "Max Keezer went forth to battle...
...intimately connected with the War will have a political as well as sensational interest, remains to be seen. With the exception of the chapter on "Bismarck", most of the book will deal with men still living--some of them in a "retirement not unlike that of the Kaiser. As for the former, let us hope that it will throw some further light on the incident so brilliantly alluded to by the London Punch in "Dropping the Pilot". Does Wilhelm regret his action, we wonder, and if so will he have the courage to say so? Or will he "temper Justice...