Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week he was 80 years old. The National League of Former Army Officers gave him what approximated a state banquet in Berlin. Doors and windows were left open so that the public might gaze once more upon some of the oldtime heraldry of Imperial Germany. The hall blazed with medals and the bright colors of bygone dress uniforms ? the blue and red of the infantry, the blue and gold of the navy, the white, green, black, blue, yellow and pink of the cavalry. Feldmar-schall Mackensen, "Faithfullest of the Faithful," entered the hall amid a thunder of hocks...
...World War is not yet ended. . . . I hope a new German Army will carry on the old Prussian spirit and virtue. I pray to witness the beginning of the Fatherland's resurrection...
...patriotic-imperialistic demonstrations switched to gay reunion of fellow officers as the wines ran rich and red and military bands started to play the half barbaric, half mystic Prussian Army marches. The crowds in the streets outside the hall waited up late to watch their old-time heroes depart. Among those not present, because of his present status as chief officer of the German Republic, was the high commander of all the Imperial German Armies, General Paul von Hindenburg. But next day, tacitly applauding the evening's celebration of good old Kultur, 82-year-old President Hindenburg...
...long and so spectacularly has white-whiskered Prime Minister Eleutherios Venizelos, "Grand Old Man of Crete," directed the troubled destiny of his country that most foreigners and many a Greek are apt to forget that the country really has a President...
...dignified, quiet, old gentleman, his flamboyant white mustache seems entirely extraneous to the pale melancholy face behind it. Old age and ill health were the reasons for his retirement last week. It is axiomatic that a republic must have a president, however impotent...