Word: prussianize
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...eleven he went to the Prussian cadet school at Wahlstatt where fierce-whiskered drill sergeants beat all imagination, all desire for originality out of him, taught him the great military virtues: absolute obedience, perfect loyalty, scrupulous honesty. At 18 he saw his first action in the war with Austria and wrote in a letter to his parents...
...Sedan, at the Siege of Paris, and-great moment in his life-at the proclamation of Wilhelm I as Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. Followed 40 years of peace. Hindenburg climbed slowly to a Major Generalship and was given command of the East Prussian frontier. This he decided would one day be a great battlefield. He painstakingly studied every inch of that desolate swampy land and became known as "the mad Old Man of the Lakes" and "General Mud." In 1911, 64 years old, he retired from the army, certain that war would never come...
Herr Groepler, a stolid individual whose profession forces him to lead a rather unsocial existence, left his cosy home in Magdeburg last week with a bag of tools and a coil of new rope. He took the train to the Prussian State Prison at Klingelpuetz, near Cologne. In the prison yard he disappeared into a dusty, dilapidated shed. Prisoners tense in their cells heard him hammering, hammering, filing metal all day long...
...underling of the Catholic Zentrum Party in Westphalia - his chief and successful effort being to organize Catholic Zentrum trade unions. Came the War and sterner duties. Bespectacled Dr. Brüning became, in an amazingly short time, be spectacled Captain Brüning, commander of a crack Prussian machine gun unit. In action he won the Iron Cross, both second and first class, returned to Westphalia wounded, hard...
...Washington which formed an American Red Cross Society, lobbied actively until the Senate had ratified the Geneva Convention which made the U. S. a member of the International Red Cross. This strong-willed little New England spinster had done relief work through the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. For 23 years she was the energetic, arbitrary ruler of the American Red Cross. In 1904 a minority of its members attacked her dictatorship, forced an investigation of her poor business management, caused her, amid bitter recriminations, to resign. Last week President Hoover, his extremely distant Swiss relative, President...