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Hatred, Marriage under False Pretenses, in the round old-fashioned way. He assumes embattled political moods and delivers thumbnail diatribes on Normalcy, the Kaiser at Doom, the Foes of the League of Nations. More widely appealing will be the ex parte satires, which are very human and mellow indeed and written, as is the whole book, with notable artistic economy. These include: a Mystic, a Skeptic, and a suppressed Dyspeptic who called himself an Asthmatic; a Famous Author who Returned to the Primitive, enjoying both himself and the publicity; a nimble Ass and an Elephant, who grumbled "life is easier...
...troop of the German Reichswehr was officially present. President von Hindenburg in full war regalia arrived by motor a few moments later. After a representative of the sometime Kaiser had placed a wreath on the memorial, the President did likewise with the words: "Your blood shall and will never be shed in vain...
...blond man of average height, with a mustache in the Kaiser Wilhelm manner, an inadequate nose, and a body that astonishingly, at the slightest excuse, erected mountain-ranges, mounds and melons of muscles-Eugene Sandow, like Mark Hanna, Lillian Russell, George Coxey, John L. Sullivan, was one of the outstanding idols of a period that worshiped modesty in all forms, including the nude. Ladies would prod his dorsal, deltoid and pectoral development with carefully gloved fingers and ask if he were real. Sporting gentlemen with Damn-my-eyes and By-God-Sirs would lay their wagers on him when...
...time of von Hindenburg's election. It seems that during the unveiling of a tablet to the war dead of the Kaiserin Augusta Guard, General Sixt von Armin made a sensational address in which he committed himself and his audience--including the Republican troops--to unbroken fidelity to the Kaiser...
Married. Mafalda, second daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, to Philip, Prince of Hesse, nephew of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II; at Racconigi, famed summer palace of the House of Savoy, before 40 kings, queens, princes and princesses, representing nine royal houses. The occasion was raised to historic significance because, for the rst time since the World War, a marriage was celebrated between royal families who were enemies during that conflict...