Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eine Selbstverstandlichkeit." To begin, the von Beneckendorffs have been for some 600 years among the most respected of the lesser Prussian nobility. By chance, the President's great-grandfather received from his great-uncle (a von Hindenburg) certain landed estates, willed him only on condition that he add the comparatively "nouveau" title of "von Hindenburg" to his own illustrious one. His son, a Prussian officer as a matter of course, married the daughter of an army surgeon. To them was born Paul, a deep-chested healthy infant, who inhaled the atmosphere of Prussian militarism with his first breath...
...went out to play, the family gardener fired the young Paul's imagination with tales of how he had served as a drummer-boy under Frederick the Great. At the age of "eighteen-and-a-half" Paul had won his way through military school to lieutenantship in the Austro-Prussian War. Said he, years afterward, "I made no choice of a profession. To fight was 'the only thing to do,' 'eine Selbstverstandlichkeit...
...Prussian Minister of Education initiated a reform of the system of education which is now in effect in Prussia and most of the other states of Germany. Why was a reform necessary? Because the schools and Gymnasiums had separated themselves from the deepest roots of the historical German mentality and had become the bondsmen of the materialistic, industrialistic, and the technical age of Germany since 1870. They had drifted into a formless, superficial, and souless omniscience. In Germany one hears nowadays that the old school teacher won the war in 1870, and that the Gymnasium instructor lost the last...
...Queen Victoria, by imperial fiat of her grandson George V. Luminous paragraphs culled from the Queen's earnest pages: Of Wilhelm II (her grandson, at the age of seven [1866], five years before his Hohenzollern grandfather, Wilhelm I, was proclaimed Emperor of Germany [1871] after the Franco Prussian War). "Dear little Willie's birthday ... a clever, dear, good little child. . . . May God preserve him and may he grow up good, clever, liberal minded in his views, worthy of his beloved grandpa.† who was so anxious about him that he should not grow up into a conceited Prussian...
Alaunts Double, a bulldog as scarred and seamed and magnetically ugly as a Prussian duelist. Owned by Lee & Rawes of Philadelphia. There was an even uglier dog in this class, Sensible Fred, owned by Thomas Grisdale of New York. But he was not quite so sound as Alaunts, and soundness, in a bulldog, is more important even than spectacular hideousness...