Word: man
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first part of the week the white-whiskered old man at Doorn did pretty much as he had done every day for the past 21 years-worked a little on his memoirs, walked a little in his park, chopped a little wood. To Friederick Wilhelm Victor Albert von Hohenzollern, once by the Grace of God Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, 1914 was a long way off. And the years since that morning in 1918 when they had hustled him out of Germany had been quiet years. No longer did people hate him. No longer did people want...
When one day over his radio he heard that his Fatherland had marched into Poland and, two days later, that England & France had gone to war against Germany, the 80-year-old man was awakened out of his life-end siesta. He called his wife Hermine and entourage into his modest living room and led them in prayer. Then he went upstairs, knelt by the bed where his first wife, Empress Augusta-Victoria had died 18 years before, and prayed again, alone. After that the old man seemed to take a new lease on life. Downstairs, in the great hall...
...Adolf Hitler told the Reichstag : ". . . I and my Government sat there for two full days and waited until it should suit the Polish Government at last to send us a man with full powers. By last night they had not sent a plenipotentiary but they let us know through their Ambassador they were now contemplating whether and how far they were able to consider British proposals. . . . If it was possible to make the German Reich and its head of state take this . . . then the German nation would not deserve anything better than to disappear from the stage. . . . I have decided...
...man could say that the Government could have done more to try and keep open the way for an honorable and equitable settlement. . . . We shall stand at the bar of history knowing that the responsibility for this terrible catastrophe lies on the shoulders of one man. The German Chancellor has not hesitated to plunge the world into misery in order to serve his own senseless ambitions...
Alligators, hippopotami and petrels all have muscle valves which close their nostrils when they enter water. Seals and polar bears can also pull in their ears. But man is "a terrestrial being," with no "musculature for closing the nostrils, and keeping water from the nasal cavities and their appurtenances." Thus wrote Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla. in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, agitating against humans participating in that No. 1 Florida pastime: swimming. Contrary to popular belief, he said, not contaminated water but plain swimming, even in pure pools, is responsible for the boils...