Word: prussian
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...clock that ticks away her life. The stock oppressors-the politicians and the plutocrats-are used only to show artist's concern for the oppressed. His work is in a durable tradition: a Gropper senator does not date any more than a Daumier judge or a Prussian officer by George Grosz. In Gropper, the "old guard" seems amazingly young...
...proclaiming, "Another Border But Still Europe." And some 1,150 schoolchildren from a dozen nations were enrolled in Brussels' Common Market European high school-multilingual, intercultural, stocked with history texts that are no longer patriotic tracts but tell both sides of such old, bitter feuds as the Franco-Prussian...
...Preminger himself was really the show. Like an Erich von Stroheim Prussian officer he thundered, "Vy are you in de vay!" at a pair of news photographers, who scurried away clutching their eardrums. To a newshen who blurred his line of vision, he roared: "I dun't care eef you are from a noospaper! You are veasible!'' She quickly made herself inveasible...
Beedle Smith was a bootstrap soldier. He rose to the top of his profession without ever attending either West Point or college. As a small boy in Indianapolis, he listened to the vivid recollections of his German grandfather, a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, and decided he would become a soldier. At 15, he joined the Indiana National Guard. When World War I began in Europe, Sergeant Major Smith reluctantly refused a commission in the Regular Army because his family could not afford to buy his uniforms. But after the U.S. entered the war, he won his shoulder bars...
...hawk-nosed, bearded officer in an absurd helmet gives a wild salute in a marvelous parody of Prussian militarism. A bulbous official with his face painted red rides by on the most overburdened of horses. His face is turned upward, his eyes blind to the two natives trudging at the horse's side...