Word: prussianize
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...stupidity of war than an all around desire for self-sacrifice which brings about the final catastrophe. The piece de resistance of the show is Eric Von Stroheim's Tentenie skull, which, as Germanophobes will notice to their regret, is not exploited for propaganda purposes. The prototype of the Prussian junker, Stroheim is badly miscast in the role of a Scrbian officer. As far as Dita Parlo, the blonde heroine of the picture, is concerned, there are grounds for assuming that she was beautiful some time...
...ring is a national decoration. His gaudy uniforms and many medals are a national-and international-joke. He lives in piratical splendor. He took his second wife, Emmy Sonnemann, out of the Prussian State Theatre, bedecked her in flowing garments to accentuate her fullblown beauty and roped her in the biggest pearls a Greek merchant could collect for him. Göring lives far beyond his salary. Nobody in Germany cares where he gets the money...
...temperate character is Robert Ferdinand Wagner, New York's senior Senator, of manner meek and mild. A man of goodwill, Prussian-born Mr. Wagner knows only one way to get things done: the hard way. Last week he took the Senate floor for his first full-dress defense of the Act he had authored. His cool statistical analysis was more devastating than any amount of emotional argument...
...overlooked in such calculations is another comparison. In 1916 Germany, fighting at Verdun and the Somme, burned up every day more materials than in the entire Franco-Prussian war. So far in this war Germany has fought only an in expensive Polish campaign, some minor air and sea battles. Germany's income may be as small as in 1916, but so far her expenses are far smaller...
Under Nazi rule Herr Thyssen became economic dictator of heavy industry, member of the Prussian State Council, a Reichstag member, chairman of a dozen boards. He had no more labor troubles on his hands, since the Nazis suppressed the unions. Rearmament brought millions of marks' worth of orders to the steel mills. The Thyssen empire prospered again...