Word: prussianize
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...Napoleonic shakos, sword belts, sashes, gold epaulets, bits of uniform. In last week's sale were a dozen battle scenes painted with iron hard detail and Noah's Ark color by 19th Century followers of Meissonier and Detaille: cavalry charges, artillery duels, the Battle of Wagram, Franco-Prussian war scenes, Renaissance gallants dueling, George III in full coronation robes, Louis XIV taking all his mistresses for a ride. There was also a barroom nude by Charles Landelle nearly six feet long. The valuable pictures Morosini owned were all 18th Century views of Venice...
...University annually publishes a catalogue known as the "Announcement of the Courses of Instruction." By its trim green covers, by the promise of order given in the lines, "An Index of Departments . . . on the Back Page of the Cover," the uninitiated is led to expect Prussian organization, Dutch neatness on its pages. But the booklet, like many others things of New England, is deceptive in its simplicity; it may be likened to a New Hampshire barn, prim, spick and span to the eye, but filled with a maze, a jungle, of mingled odds and ends, in which the stranger...
...problem of rearrangement would undoubtedly be too great for any Harvard man, tutored in the traditions and history of the College. The University should commission Frank Buck, the explorer, to penetrate the great Meldweson, famous card catalogue of the Berlin police, and from thence bring back a bespectacled Prussian, who would be equal to the task of putting the "Announcement" in an orderly, alphabetical and numerical arrangement, with cross-references to related courses...
Many a German has less German blood than Britain's Edward. During the War patriotic letters to the London Times urged that "His Majesty King George V must be made King of Hanover, as his ancestors were before him!" Last week the Prussian Province of Hanover was not looking for a King. But in Berlin a highly successful revue, The Very Last Minute, was cut by the police, merely because Edward of Wales had landed in Hamburg 160 miles away...
Under the decree which ousted Prussia's Adam & Eve, her Government is vested in a Federal Commissioner, blunt Dr. Franz Bracht. He took the line last week that he and all his ministers are not responsible to the Prussian Diet, but solely to President von Hindenburg. Therefore Dr. Bracht let Prussian Deputies elected by three-fifths of the German people rave, rant and grow purple in the face...