Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back of that is his birth (1818) in Rhenish Prussian Treves, son of a Jewish lawyer, with a long line of learned rabbis behind the lawyer. His years at the universities of Bonn and Berlin were studious, lazy-livered, undramatic. He took his Ph. D., fought no duels. He married the daughter of a high government official. His interest always lay in philosophy and the proletariat. After journalistic ventures in revolutionary twilight zones in Cologne, Paris, Brussels, he fled with his wife, three children and faithful servant "Lenchen," to London, world's warmest haven for refugees...
...Franco-Prussian War", Professor Webster...
...Hour after hour Fire bellowed, and water pssssssssed-from 3 a. m. to 9 p. m. Up and down, up and down until the fire was out, tirelessly paced a little man very stout and round for his small stature, with the carefully shaven and glistening head of a Prussian, and with two hard, compelling eyes. Subordinates wept, but not STIMMING. Far away in the Manhattan office of the North German Lloyd, the blow pierced a deep vein of German sentiment; and of the two principal officials one sobbed as only a man can, while the other...
...chanted the assembled guests and banged till the glasses 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...
...their itching fingers, and the forest-green overcoat looked to them like field-gray. They proceeded to hack the embroidered sleeves off the overcoat with trench knives; scalps for their sweethearts at home. A good story would be made out of an encounter with at least a Prussian Oberst! The job was just completed when they were struck dumb with terror by the appearance in the doorway of a herculean figure dressed in the same enemy color, voice and frown suggesting Ludendorff. The thieves fled in opposite directions leaving the mule to stop the Germans...