Word: lusitania
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...Massachusetts family of Sedgwick and the famed art-printers of Munich, he made the good Harvard clubs. But his Harvard loyalty and his German patriotism split badly in 1915 when he raised his cheerful bellow in Manhattan's Harvard Club in celebration of the sinking of the Lusitania and was asked to resign. When the U. S. went to war Hanfstaengl was in Manhattan tending the family's branch store and could not get back to Germany. On his return in 1922 he threw in his lot with an obscure troublemaker named Adolf Hitler. By last week...
...dancing in cabarets until 4 o'clock in the morning and supporting a reputation for scrupulous promptness by carrying two watches. In his elaborate apartment over the Lyceum Theatre he sleeps on the floor because beds give him insomnia. His brother Charles went down on the Lusitania...
...Christ, no! It would demoralize the men.' After a pause he added: 'The Lusitania...
...English) army, but because ship after ship spilled its soggy treasure on the Blasket shore. Sometimes there were corpses. Once a bloated officer from the Lusitania. After the War the day came when sorrow was on the island. The fishing was gone under foot. More and more wakes were held for the young people going off to America, and the old ones wondered who would be left to bury them. Maurice went to Dublin, joined the Civic Guard...
...were broken. Litigation dragged on until 1929. In 1924 Bates had died in France of a paralytic stroke. A Vermonter and Yaleman, consulting engineer at various times for Australia, Russia, Belgium, he was moved to look for a cheaper fuel when his son Lindon Jr. went down on the Lusitania in 1915. His patents, 20 in the U. S., 15 in Canada, including the basic Plauson-Schroeder patent, now belong to another son, Lindell Theodore Bates, Manhattan lawyer. The foreign patents have lapsed...