Word: prussianize
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...Nazis redoubled their attempt to weaken the Polish customs control of the Danzig-East Prussian frontier. Nazis had already tried ordering German merchants to refuse to sell foodstuffs to Polish officials. A more direct method was tried last week: a Polish customs officer's house was bombed, a Polish stationmaster was attacked by "unknown assailants...
Inordinately ambitious, a weaver of grandiose political dreams, Herr Himmler might find war, if it comes, not to his taste. War might mean the rise once more to power of the old Prussian Army machine and a policeman's lot might not be so important in war as in peace. But war or no war, anything that might happen to eclipse or remove Herr Himmler's aging boss can be expected to be the signal for a dogfight for power between Herren Göring, Goebbels and Himmler. Herr Himmler, the youngest of the lot, does not intend...
...Colossal is the word for Prentiss Ingraham's (1843-1904) prolificity. His career supplied him with material aplenty. A soldier of fortune, he fought in the Civil War, under Juarez in Mexico, in the Austro-Prussian War, in Crete, in Africa, in Cuba. He wrote more than 600 novels, twelve plays-''without distinction [but] . . . written in a surprisingly correct and easy fashion and . . . wholesome in their general teachings." Napoleon's writings had a more disturbing effect...
Brushing aside the plagiary charge, authors Morgan Preston '39, David Lannon '39, and Alan Lerner '40 stated that they had written the play last Spring, borrowing the title from a Pudding show produced during the Franco-Prussian War. I. A. L. Diamond, sophomore author of the Columbia book, admits lifting his title from Pegler...
...people love uniforms, parades, military formations, and submit easily to authority is no secret. Führer Hitler's own hero is Frederick the Great. That admiration stems undoubtedly from Frederick's military prowess and autocratic rule rather than from Frederick's love of French culture and his hatred of Prussian boorishness. But unlike the polished Frederick, Führer Hitler, whose reading has always been very limited, invites few great minds to visit him, nor would Führer Hitler agree with Frederick's contention that he was "tired of ruling over slaves...