Word: lieberkuehn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing, such goings-on were not cricket in the eyes of Lower Saxony farmers, whose own system of hunting is to grub about on foot with small whistles that imitate the cries of a rabbit, and then to pounce on the fox. They appealed to Herr Hans Lieberkuehn, Wolfenbüttel's local hunt master. Herr Lieberkuehn dug up a law drafted by Hermann Göring (who liked to hunt with falcons) which prohibited riding to hounds...
...icily courteous meeting with the young Marquess and his mates, Herr Lieberkuehn stuck by the law: the pink coats, hounds & horses must go. That night the Life Guards bundled up a supply of fireworks, threw in a few Very pistol flares to boot, and descended in the dark on Herr Lieberkuehn's house. It was a spectacular show, though it scared the maid half to death: she thought the Russians had finally crossed over from the East-West border only 20 miles away. Unfortunately, Herr and Frau Lieberkuehn were away at the movies, so the lads had to come...
Resignation Accepted. Local newspapers were outraged. The Soviet zone Communist radio made a big thing of it, incidentally identifying the Marquess as a former suitor of Princess Margaret Rose. After advising Whitehall in London, the British resident officer at Goslar made an apology to Herr Lieberkuehn; Blandford and his cronies paid 40 DM. ($9.90) for damage to Herr Lieberkuehn's property (two broken windows, a trampled garden). The pink coats were ordered into mothballs and the ducal hounds were sent back, tails down, to their home kennels...
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