Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan aroused much opposition on both sides of the Atlantic. One British M. P. even denounced Sir Hugo Hirst, British G. E.'s managing director, as "a super-patriot of German origin"-the reference being to the fact that Sir Hugo, though now a Britisher, was born in Munich. So Sir Hugo, discovering himself to be an unpopular minority, postponed the issue, pending conferences with representatives of his U. S. shareholders, who own some 60% (nonvoting) of present British G. E. stock. It was for these conferences that Stockholders' Representatives Chadbourne and Swope came to London...
...rattled. It was the 80th birthday, last week, of Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, Wartime commander of Germany's Navy, until 1916. The little mountain inn at Feldafing, Bavaria, on the shores of the Wurm See was crowded with Prussian Generals and Bavarian Princes. Perspiring waiters, imported from Munich, rushed to and from the kitchen bearing caviar, Rhine salmon, venison−in all 50 mountainous courses of food for the distinguished guests...
...like Egypt-he has always good weather. At 89 he is still stronger than I am."* Alfred P. Friedrich von Tirpitz, erstwhile famed and defamed Lord High Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, now living in retirement at Feldafing on the shores of Starnberger Lake in Bavaria, near Munich, said: "Oh, well, perhaps I've outlived the times...
From Stuttgart to Munich and from Bremen to Berlin, piano salesmen are talking with unglüchen herzen, about "the saturation point...
...Munich drinks...