Word: prussian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franco-Prussian War," Professor Fay, Harvard...
...defeat of the white races, and the Peace of 1918 . . . the first great triumph of the coloured world," he holds out a small hope, no bigger than Hitler's hand, for the salvation of Western civilization. "There remains as a formative power only the warlike, 'Prussian' spirit-everywhere and not in Germany alone. . . . He whose sword compels victory here will be lord of the world. The dice are there ready for this stupendous game. Who dares to throw them...
Among costumes affected by the No. 2 Nazi, beefy Hermann Wilhelm GÖring who holds more offices in Germany than anyone else, is a blue velvet robe made like the toga of a Roman Emperor, complete with a tame lion cub trained to sit impressively beside Prussian Premier GÖring's desk...
...lieutenant named Muff at (Phillips Holmes), whose older brother (Lionel Atwill), a pompous colonel, considers her a "gilded fly." But after he has sent his young brother to Algiers to cool off, Colonel Muffat starts pawing Nana for himself. By the time Lieutenant Muffat returns to Paris, the Franco-Prussian War has started, Nana has become a tosspot and Colonel Muffat has left his home to live with her. The brothers meet in the hall of Nana's house. They start to draw their swords. But since the point of the story is that Nana, although troublesome, is nice...
Georgi Dimitroff was the sensation of the Reichstag Fire Trial (TIME, Sept. 25, et seq.). With fiery Bulgar wit he conducted his own defense, taunted Prussian Premier General Hermann Wilhelm Göring into a jittering rage and finally forced State Prosecutor Werner to ask his acquittal...