Word: prittwitz
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Fair" von Prittwitz...
TIME said that Baron von Prittwitz was a "fair" tennis player, taking his honesty for granted and meaning, obviously, to indicate that he played tennis "fairly well." A "fair" golfer is one who scores between 85 and 95 on an eighteen average holes. A "fair" tennis player is one who can play backhand or forehand with almost equal facility, and beat approximately half the able-bodied male playing members of his country club, in case he belongs...
...Nationalists, however, were angered. They recalled that Dr. von Prittwitz welcomed the advent of the German Republic in 1918 a trifle too enthusiastically and that even now, as a Democrat, he was a member of the November Ninth Club, a republican organization. Faced by a fait accompli, however, they drew in their horns and decided for the most part to "await events" before passing judgment...
...Prittwitz, as he likes to be known, is 44 years old, scion of an old Prussian family, the son of Colonel Max von Prittwitz...
...first having served as a minister to some relatively unimportant country. A recent case in the German diplomatic service is that of the now German Ambassador to France, Dr. von Hoesch, who was Counselor of the Embassy in Paris before being elevated to his present rank. However, Dr. von Prittwitz is reputedly one of the cleverest diplomats in the employ of the Reich and one that apparently enjoys the full confidence of his superiors in the Wilhelmstrasse...